We live in a world where progress and the public welfare are stymied by copyright and patent laws that grant extended exclusivity to the owners of intellectual property (“IP”). To pick just one example, drug patents have now resulted in drug price increases exceeding inflation by a factor of eight, with one cancer drug therapy now costing $295,000 per year.
We live in a world where progress and the public welfare are stymied by copyright and patent laws that grant extended exclusivity to the owners of intellectual property (“IP”). To pick just one example, drug patents have now resulted in drug price increases exceeding inflation by a factor of eight, with one cancer drug therapy now costing $295,000 per year.
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