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swimming pool iceland (1/3)

Originally uploaded by iphilipp.

My first attempt at posting to bits-and-pieces straight from my flickr.com photo library. Let’s see how (if?) this works …

I have spent some time recently looking at Economic research on patents and it turns out that patents are — especially in the case of developing countries — largely useless…. However, if one listened to the international debates at WIPO or the WTO (the two organisations that practically “own” intellectual rights - pun intended) it seems that either the experts have not read any of the research or they just don’t care.