Taxpayer funding can foster poor intellectual property outcomes like compulsory licensing and uncertain ownership rights.

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But that is the level of intellectual discourse among our Lords and Masters in the EU at present: poor us.

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Lack of market incentives and funding, rather than intellectual property rights, are the real brakes on research into crops of greatest interest to the poor.

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Intellectual-property protection is needed for innovation but this must be balanced against the needs of millions of poor people for affordable medicines.

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