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   it's basically how can we come up with a roadmap to making this decentralized insulin without violating any existing patents
This is how patents are supposed to foster innovation. Wasted effort reinventing the wheel



Both too long time of life, and too easy and cheap to extend.

Most importantly, it's a while set of single thing patents which means you need a thick, expensive cross licensing agreement most of the time. Even finding out which patents you need is hard, and then the patents are written in a way that nakes them hard to use too, including incomplete in crucial details.

It's a mockery of the original intent of the patent system.




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