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| Windsun wrote:
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| >... I said that a patent did not prevent it from being made.
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| But it does, without the patent owner's permission.
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That's the price of development and innovation.

In return for disclosure the world gains access to ideas that are archived
and can be expanded.

Without the patent system we would not have access to generic drugs or the
transistor among other technology.