[LINK] Is it unethical to infringe a patent?

[Craig Sanders]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:56:59PM +1000, Brendan Scott wrote:
> If the government issues a compulsory licence over a (worthy, well
> known) patent, at a price less than what the patentee wanted, would it
> be unethical to take the benefit of the compulsory licence or should
> you pay a premium to the patentee to work the patent?

since a patent monopoly ONLY exists because of a government decree,
it's not unreasonable for that same government which granted the patent
to set the terms of it, especially when the idea/invention is of great
benefit to society.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)