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The Patent Exchange
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 01:38 PM EDT

I'm certainly not making up the underlying understanding that the patent exchange is supposed to be - and was originally meant to be:

    Dissemination of the knowledge of the invention to the public in exchange for a limited monopoly grant on the invention!
This is inherent in the patent requirement that full disclosure so that someone versed in the art can build the invention is a requirement to receive a patent. 35 USC § 101 - Inventions patentable:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
35 USC § 112 - Specification:
(a) In General.— The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
Bolding mine.

I know I recently (in the last couple years) read one of the Supreme Court's rulings on Patents with regards the benefit/harm to Society. So I'll need to research that to support my position that the balance of harm to Society in granting the patent should (and seems to, based on my understanding of the Supreme's ruling) outweigh any claim of harm to the individual inventor.

RAS

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You keep making stuff up and inappropriately extrapolating.
Authored by: PJ on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 01:58 PM EDT
Hahahaha

Like the Wright Brothers? Hahahahaha. They
strangled progress for so long, the US air
industry was hobbled and Europe got ahead of
the US. The government finally had to step
in the fix the bottleneck. So you are
arguing from ideology, not real-life effects.

Let me guess. You own some patents or work
for someone who does?

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