Are Patent Laws a Major Hindrance to Better Available Hair Loss Treatments ?

[35YrsAfter]

All Our Patent Are Belong To You
By Elon Musk, CEO Tesla

Quote from article:
"When I started out with my first company, Zip2, I thought patents were a good thing and worked hard to obtain them. And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors. After Zip2, when I realized that receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible."

While reading through patents and taking the claims at face value, it's natural to assume that the cure for Androgenic Alopecia has already been developed.

Thoughts?

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[burtandernie]

Someone owning an idea or process is beyond silly to me. Someone else cant independently arrive at the same conclusion as someone else because its patented?

[35YrsAfter]

Someone owning an idea or process is beyond silly to me. Someone else cant independently arrive at the same conclusion as someone else because its patented?

It would be very interesting to get the opinion of a patent attorney on the following:

Methods and apparatus for promoting hair growth using adipose cell based therapies

Hair follicle growth

Chuck

[Desmond84]

A major hindrance is the motto "Do No Harm". This methodology slows down progress and prevents exponential growth on levels seen in IT and other fields of science. Until we find a way to grown human parts and test drugs directly on human tissue, we have to put up with this kind of slow-moving progress in the field of medicine.

[burtandernie]

Yeah I agree. Stem cells might turn out to be huge simply for being able to grow organs and tissues to test things on and see how things work. That has always been one of hardest parts is just going from animals to humans doesnt work a lot of times.