Comment by brookst
2 days ago
Lots of small companies only get funding because investors believe the IP will be worth something even if the company fails. I’m not wild about our current patent situation, but we have to recognize that a less restrictive recision would impact small business pretty hard.
Shoe goes on both feet though. Lots of companies are not viable due to the legal burden of one small neccesary part being patented.
For sure. It’s complicated, and it’s different people and companies when you get to the specifics.
It is not complicated. Patents are regressive instruments of the rich to shackle minds and generate artificial scarcity over abundant goods.
It is a mechanism of slavers and connected lineages, and completely puts of a boot on the neck of unconnected innovators, which are abundant in today's age.
They must be abolished.
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I don't care about the impact on small business. I care about the impact on real people being able to access life-saving technology.