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Re:AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Ja... by svara on Thursday July 02, 2026 @02:27PM (#48765515)
It's not black and white- in pharma there are notable sources for investment that are not private, e.g. for orphan diseases that would otherwise not see enough investment due to lack of profitability.

But here's a mechanism to mobilize private capital for those diseases that are. Again, the investment needed boogles the mind, around 10B currently, for a single drug.

You're asking someone to pay that money and allowing others to reap the rewards. Why wouldn't everyone want to be the one who didn't pay the money?

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Re:AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Ja... by markdown on Friday July 03, 2026 @12:52AM (#48770902)
> Again, the investment needed boogles the mind, around 10B currently, for a single drug.

These are made up numbers though. 99% of that is overheads of a massive corporation. A tiny fraction of 10B would pay for all the brightest minds in teh world for a decade. Another tiny fraction to pay for a lab and lab techs.

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