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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 10 2012 @ 11:36 PM EDT |
Because it might take me three years to work out my ideas and make them software
(or seven -- think of proving Fermat's last theorem), a year or two to ramp up,
and another year to become irrelevant.
For my straw man, how about three years, and I can delay them by another three
years, since it takes about that long to get the patent anyway....
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 06:33 PM EDT |
Make it based on revenue, instead.
When the inventor has profited in the amount of (N times the average salary of a
PHOSITA for that field), then the patent should be considered exhausted, and
should default to the public domain; N being an small integer of arguable value
somewhere in the range of 2 to 5, as an initial guess.
This would tend to keep patents in the hands of the inventor, as they wouldn't
have the potential world-as-hostage value that they do now, while still
remaining nicely profitable for the average person in most fields.
Software patents would, however, suffer in value (justifiably) because the
"average salary" calculation would also have to include all those
unemployed, underage cranking-out-code-instead-of-homework kids with
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