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Most patents are drag on the innovation

Most patents are drag on the innovation

Posted Feb 10, 2012 13:41 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Most patents are drag on the innovation by Wol
Parent article: Mueller: Apple's iterative approach to FRAND abuse is not for the faint of heart

>Exept that's not what "racemic" means. All racemic means is "50/50 L and R", not "L and R spontaneously flip". Actually, that flip is pretty much impossible without something there to catalyse the reaction.

Well, it does interconvert at least in-vivo: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15080764


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