[Valpal1]

Patent protection wasn’t as beneficial in an era of slow transportation and even slower transmittal of information.

Things have changed.

And read the whole thing. We didn’t have squat and Germany dominated the industry until a global conflagration changed things.

I don’t think limited IP protection is a bad thing.

[SeeSharp]

Patent protection wasn’t as beneficial in an era of slow transportation and even slower transmittal of information.

So slower dissemination of information is good? Lets turn off the Internet then.

I don’t think limited IP protection is a bad thing.

See there's the thing that really stands out as unsupportable to me. If IP is a good thing then why must it be limited? And how do you decide how long the patent term should be? Drug patents were three years. Then they were raised to ten years during Clinton's term, as a favor for a really big campaign donation. Then Bush got Congress to raise them to thirty years, also as a quid pro quo for campaign donations. So tell me how long a drug patent should be if it's going to be limited just to the point of being "good".