Comment by Steven420
2 years ago
If you don't have a patent on an invention then how do you protect it from people who will just steal what you have spent time/money creating?
2 years ago
If you don't have a patent on an invention then how do you protect it from people who will just steal what you have spent time/money creating?
This is what patents used to do, but the economic and technological circumstances under which they did have changed dramatically over the last couple hundred years. All they really do now is entrench the power of the massive corporations with the capital to buy them up and sue anyone that they think encroach. It's not promoting innovation anymore, it's stifling it.
Patents can be filed for around $2000
Patents no longer go to individual people. They go to corporations. Perhaps we should ban corporations from getting patents on behalf of people.
That would be.. interesting from a compensation & retention (& poaching!) perspective!
So the work of 1000 people at a company may have gone into developing the tech that is to be patented, but we must restrict the patent to being owned by one single individual?
1. If you are first to market and still can't make money off your amazing invention, that might be a skill issue. 2. Patents wouldn't be as forceful if they didn't last that long. A decade or more is basically forever in a fast-moving field like tech.
>If you are first to market and still can't make money off your amazing invention, that might be a skill issue.
Sounds like something a VC would say.
Have you considered that inventing things and selling them are two different skill sets?
The patent system needs reform, not elimination.
Why would you artificially encumber a significant invention from benefitting the world just because you don't have the wherewithal to sell it?
Seems awfully self-centered.
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