I had no qualms about patenting technology. When I was at...

I had no qualms about patenting technology. When I was at MIT, there was a professor who came up with a potential treatment for epilepsy, but he didn't patent his invention. By the time he approached drug companies about testing the treatment, it was already in the public domain and they wouldn't do any work with it, even though it was potentially a huge improvement on existing therapies. That's when I realized the importance of patents.