an idea and then needs to be protected. That is a good picture of maybe what pharmaceutical industry does.In the context of software development, where you have sequential and complementary developments, patents create an extraordinarily damaging influence on innovation and on the process of developing and bringing new ideas to market.discriminate among different kinds of innovation.We really need to think quite pragmatically about whether intellectual property is helping or hurting, and if you can't show it's going to help, then there is no reason to issue this government-backed monopoly.
Lawrence Lessig