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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.
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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
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