[LINK] Is it unethical to infringe a patent?

Deus Ex Machina vicc at cia.com.au
Fri Aug 18 10:11:19 AEST 2006


Craig Sanders [cas at taz.net.au] wrote:
> 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.

all property only exists by government decree. why would people apply
for property if there was a possiblity that government would hijack it?

Vic




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