John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin, inevitably, revisit the topic of patents, attempting to address a wide array of listener feedback. For the hearty listeners that make it through the patent talk, there's a bonus discussion of the new MacBook Pro rumors, and a brief consideration of cutscenes and trailers in video games.

Links for this episode:

• Thomas Pogge - Reimagining pharmaceutical innovation - YouTube
  
• Against Intellectual Monopoly (PDF)
  
• Against Intellectual Monopoly - Amazon.com
  
• Book Review: “Patent Failure” - Ars Technica
  
• Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk - Amazon.com:
  
• Lag: The Bane Of Touch Screens - Noel Llopis
  
• Programming Responsiveness - Mick West
  
• Measuring Responsiveness in Video Games - Mick West
  
• Making It Scientifically - Robert K. Merton
  
• Nathan Myhrvold and collective genius in science - Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker
  
• Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research - Michael A. Heller and Rebecca S. Eisenberg
  
• Financing Drug Research: What Are the Issues? - Dean Baker
  
• The Truth about Drug Companies - Marcia Angell, MD
  
• Red pill blue pill - John McCoy
  
• Context-Free Patent Art
  
• Patent Hands - Flickr
  
• Pirate Party - Wikipedia
  
• Thomas Jefferson on Patents and Freedom of Ideas - Moving to Freedom
  
• Transatlantic ping faster than sending a pixel to the screen? - Super User
  
• Super Mario World ending
  

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