All of the copyright advisors to the admin on the TPP are from the industry. ALL of them.

[eridani]

141. Google "Bell Labs" and read the sad story of their downsizing since their glory days--

--which just happened to coincide with maximum funding from the government. Can we get back to TPP? Patenting surgical techniques? Patent life extending 100 fucking YEARS beyond the death of the inventor? (Fuck grandchildren--being a member of the lucky sperm/ovum club adds nothing to the public good.)

You are arguing that patent protection is a public good, which is not a matter of dispute at all. TPP takes the notion and perverts it to establishing a corporate dictatorship over all innovation. Even now, engineers working for a company sign over all their patent rights to their employers as a condition of employment. If TPP had been in effect during WW II, the entire programming industry would have been shut down before it started. Even now programmers can be sued for writing subroutines similar to those in patented software. This is hard to avoid because programming protocol dictates few options for best practices. If two programmers think of the same subroutine for this reason, they should be able to sue each other? Bullshit sez I.