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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 01:56 PM EDT |
I do not believe - given the documented history - that Jefferson or the other
founding fathers would agree with you.
I do, however, sadly agree with
you as far as "the US Patent System as the Patent Lawyers have guided it to its
point today" is concerned.
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- Thomas Jefferson - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 02:22 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 08:54 PM EDT |
I'm not going to say the US patent system is perfect, good, or even mediocre.
But it does at least partially serve it's intended purpose of promoting
disclosure.
To see this you need to look at a industry where things are invented but patents
don't protect the inventions from being copied. The best example that comes to
my mind is spaceflight. Spacex, (the only US entity capable of launching stuff
to the space station. The only entity capable of bringing significant cargo down
from the space station. And probably the entity that is making the most advances
to rocket technology.) Has publicly admitted that they don't release information
on a lot of their innovations/inventions because their is nothing to stop their
competitors (ie China) from copying them. This is the problem that patents are
intended to fix, and for all the other problems they cause, they don't do *that*
bad a job at fixing that problem.
Of course that's not to say that, especially in software, they aren't also
heavily abused to suck money out of companies, and to maintain monopolies. So I
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