decoration decoration
Stories

GROKLAW
When you want to know more...
decoration
For layout only
Home
Archives
Site Map
Search
About Groklaw
Awards
Legal Research
Timelines
ApplevSamsung
ApplevSamsung p.2
ArchiveExplorer
Autozone
Bilski
Cases
Cast: Lawyers
Comes v. MS
Contracts/Documents
Courts
DRM
Gordon v MS
GPL
Grokdoc
HTML How To
IPI v RH
IV v. Google
Legal Docs
Lodsys
MS Litigations
MSvB&N
News Picks
Novell v. MS
Novell-MS Deal
ODF/OOXML
OOXML Appeals
OraclevGoogle
Patents
ProjectMonterey
Psystar
Quote Database
Red Hat v SCO
Salus Book
SCEA v Hotz
SCO Appeals
SCO Bankruptcy
SCO Financials
SCO Overview
SCO v IBM
SCO v Novell
SCO:Soup2Nuts
SCOsource
Sean Daly
Software Patents
Switch to Linux
Transcripts
Unix Books

Gear

Groklaw Gear

Click here to send an email to the editor of this weblog.


You won't find me on Facebook


Donate

Donate Paypal


No Legal Advice

The information on Groklaw is not intended to constitute legal advice. While Mark is a lawyer and he has asked other lawyers and law students to contribute articles, all of these articles are offered to help educate, not to provide specific legal advice. They are not your lawyers.

Here's Groklaw's comments policy.


What's New

STORIES
No new stories

COMMENTS last 48 hrs
No new comments


Sponsors

Hosting:
hosted by ibiblio

On servers donated to ibiblio by AMD.

Webmaster
Contributing to the Economy ... or not | 457 comments | Create New Account
Comments belong to whoever posts them. Please notify us of inappropriate comments.
The fallacy's usual example:
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 09:36 AM EDT
Normally, people use "breaking a window stimulates the economy" as the
example for this.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

The technical term for it is rent-seeking.
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 10:12 AM EDT
nfm

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Contributing to the Economy
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 12:37 PM EDT
Apple is moderate middle ground? I think they are quite as bad
as Microsoft.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Contributing to the Economy ... or not
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 04:02 PM EDT
Actually, I wonder how the legal payouts get rolled into the
GDP.

It has been argued that the GDP (and GNP) rolls too many
things in-- like the cost of preparing for or recovering
from hurricanes, for instance-- and, so, while treated as
"the bottom line", is often inaccurate. (The GDP may be
precise, however, which might be part of the problem.)

Patent Trolls, I believe, do NOT negatively impact the GDP,
since the monies changing hands get added in w/o, instead,
being subtracted. When it comes to international issues,
however... well...

The biggest problem w/ "Intellectual Property" is that it is
being treated as a tangible asset. Copyright violations
aren't an "outright taking" but DO impose "easements", as do

"patent violations"... it's not an all-or-nothing deal.

The public domain is a place where new ideas usually get
fertilized... yet patent laws provide the levees to keep the
silt from depositing where it can do any good.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

I like PEE.
Authored by: albert on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 01:21 PM EDT
Patent Extortion Entity, or, more politely, Patent Enforcement Entity.


credit to ???

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Groklaw © Copyright 2003-2013 Pamela Jones.
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Comments are owned by the individual posters.

PJ's articles are licensed under a Creative Commons License. ( Details )