On: EFF Outlines Plan to Fix the Broken Patent System

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Even if we keep patents for Big Pharma alone, they need a serious overhaul because right now they are grossly abusing them, too. It's not just tech companies doing it.

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/patents-against-peopl...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/the-drug-that-is...

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/03/31/how-big-pha...

(there are many more such examples)