Showing posts with label response. Show all posts
Showing posts with label response. Show all posts
Sunday, April 30, 2017
Do Biotech Patent Lawsuits Really “Overwhelmingly Lose ” A Response to Our Divided Patent System
Do Biotech Patent Lawsuits Really “Overwhelmingly Lose ” A Response to Our Divided Patent System
On October 14, 2014, Stanford’s Professor Mark Lemley tweeted “My new study with Allison & Schwartz shows that software and biotech patent lawsuits overwhelmingly lose.” The "study" he was referring to is Our Divided Patent System, an article co-authored by Lemley and two other prominent law professors, which found that biotech companies have only won with respect to 8% of the patents that have been taken to judgment.
In order to better understand the basis for Lemley’s assertion, I reanalyzed the data underlying Our Divided Patent System, and found that the situation is not nearly as bleak as Lemleys tweet might suggest. For example, while Our Divided Patent System reported that biotech companies have only won with respect to 8% of the patents that have been taken to judgment, I looked at the same set of lawsuits and found that, out of a total of sixteen distinct biotech patent litigations, seven appear to result in favorable outcomes for the patent owner (44%). Not only did biotech patent owners benefit from favorable outcomes in nearly half of the litigations, the magnitude of these favorable outcomes was often substantial.
My full response to Our Divided Patent System, which originally appeared in Biotechnology Law Report, is available here.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Dispatches In Gods Name and a proper response
Dispatches In Gods Name and a proper response
Just watched this and I think Ive got a little sick in my mouth.
As Christianity becomes smaller and more marginalised in the UK a certain core of it becomes more and more extreme to in an attempt to preserve itself. We have to hope that the mainstream, reasonable UK Christians will fight strongly against this ridiculous shit and kick up a fuss. And if they dont then shame on them. Seriously, weve creationism in UK schools, homophobes and pro-life lobbyists manipulating Judges and bills and all the while they are hiding the fact they think the world is "about 4000" years old. That and Jerry Springer the Opera haters Christian voice were in the show, holding meetings where they ask God to push back the floods of evil (aka Islam). And their leader saying that "Allah is Satan."
This is the-shit-we-laugh-at-America-for on our doorstep.
Half the time I think the proper response is to carefully and politely deconstruct their arguments and promote reality, but Im starting to think that we need to talk to them on their level. For example when a Creationist disproved evolution by demonstrating that you never find new life when you open a jar of peanut butter, I wrote a response about statistics and the Urey Miller experiment
But maybe I should have done this:
Half the time I think the proper response is to carefully and politely deconstruct their arguments and promote reality, but Im starting to think that we need to talk to them on their level. For example when a Creationist disproved evolution by demonstrating that you never find new life when you open a jar of peanut butter, I wrote a response about statistics and the Urey Miller experiment
But maybe I should have done this:
I wonder, if this was the only kind of response Creationists could get would they be doing better or worse?
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