Some critics of intellectual property, such as those in the free culture movement, point at intellectual monopolies as harming health (in the case of pharmaceutical <answer>patent</answer>s), preventing progress, and benefiting concentrated interests to the detriment of the masses, and argue that the public interest is harmed by ever-expansive monopolies in the form of copyright extensions, software <answer>patent</answer>s, and business method <answer>patent</answer>s. More recently scientists and engineers are expressing concern that <answer>patent</answer> thickets are undermining technological development even in high-tech fields like nanotechnology.
Developments in nanotechnology are being undermined by what type of IP?
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