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Re: Why Patents Are Bad (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Friday, July 11 @ 16:48:38 EDT | I think that the concept of a patent is a great idea, it is the application of that idea that has failed. Ideas should not be "unprotected and quickly copied," this entirely discourages entrepreneurship, a concept that our nation was founded on.
Patents should only apply to novel creations, however. Such things as Amazon's "one-click" patent fail to provide enough novelty, and should not be valid. |
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Re: Why Patents Are Bad (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Saturday, July 12 @ 16:22:43 EDT | Eighty percent of the problem with current patent law lies with the current definition of "unobviousness" of patents under 35 U.S.C. s 103.
Its just to high a standard to be economically efficient.
You want inventions to be protected for a limited time to spur further technologies, not to create new forms of "playing card monopolies." As a patent attorney, I can testify first hand to the incredible dead weight loss to the overall economy caused by the thousands of patents, especially in the electronic commerce area, that have passed over my desk for minutes or hours.
More about this later, though, as I've got a patent to write... |
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