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Re:Universities have turned over hundreds of patents to pate... by Panino on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:36PM (#12710526)
Related: publicly funded research that leads to privately held patents results in a form of double taxation. The consumer pays taxes to create the product, then turns around and pays patent-level pricing to buy/use it.
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Re:Universities have turned over hundreds of patents to pate... by mathattack on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:50PM (#12710606)
And we have to pay to get access to the research in private journals. (And pay faculty salaries to do peer reviews for the journal)

It's at least Triple taxation.

Quadruple taxation for the underpaid grad students working on the research to get their degree?

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