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Chinese memory firm CXMT relied on leaked Samsung technology to skip years of R&D, court testimony claims (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 171 points 1 week ago (4 children)

When companies are not able to produce enough to satisfy demand and are actively stopping selling to certain sectors and harming them, they should lose their patents. RAM companies are actively harming all of us by selling their products to the AI companies and leaving us all without RAM, so we should encourage alternatives.

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  • [–] 91 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Sure for RAM but holy shit why is not done for medicine?

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  • [–] 49 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Because that would be something Jesus would approve of and we can't allow that

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago

    It is. It's called Compulsory Licensing.

    There is also an FDA Shortage list (most countries have a similar list).
    A drug on that list gives the government additional powers to allow companies to work around the parents.

    I think this is why there has been so many "off-brand" weight loss drugs recently. Novo Nordisk had supply chain issues with semaglutide, triggering governments to allow other manufacturers

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Oh look, 'Murica brain...
    It's a common thing in a lot of the world. I've been on many medications throughout the years and all of them have had several options at each of the several drug store companies, and the default is always the cheapest. They always ask "are you ok with another brand?" if there's a cheaper one than the one written on the prescription.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    So patents are stopping the whole market competition thing, like what how capitalism is supposed to work and all that.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    There should be a ceiling with patents, where if you make 10x back of what it cost your r&d (or whatever 5x of your yearly revenue), the patent should just be considered expired no matter how much time passed.

    It should never be an infinite source of money.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Patents in the US only last 20 years on stuff like this, the problem is that lawyers are crafty. So they will patent the formula and then 20 years later the delivery method or something like that. Thus preventing generics for longer than they should be able to.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    When companies are not able to produce enough to satisfy demand and are actively stopping selling to certain sectors and harming them, they should lose their patents.

    Except they stop selling to certain sectors because these sectors pay less. I am pretty sure that if a laptop maker ask to buy the RAM at a 50% higher price than AI companies, the RAM producer will happily sell to them.

    RAM companies are actively harming all of us by selling their products to the AI companies and leaving us all without RAM, so we should encourage alternatives.

    And how do you plan to keep these alternatives from selling to the higher bidder, which will probably be a AI company ?

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