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Did they check the QUALITY of patents vs. innovation? How do you measure "innovation"? How about patents vs. profit?
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"Larger companies can be woefully bureaucratic, slow, inefficient and risk averse. That leaves plenty of opportunity for smaller companies to out innovate the larger ones despite the appearance of a...
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Certain processes can only be acheived with an enormous wealth of resources and special facilities, eg space technology. There's no point pretending that Joe Startup can play in this game. Did you...
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No I haven't Mike. I'm quite interested in space obviously, but the X-Prize thing has sort of passed me by a bit. I've always thought that eventually communication satellite technology would filter...
View ArticleRe: Patent is a RIGHT
That's because most companies own patents these days, not individuals. You are usually required to sign an agreement upon employment that anything you create on their dime is theirs. By large, the...
View ArticleRe: Patent is a RIGHT
Though it is described as a right I think that is too strong a word for it Pixcavator. Food, water and shelter are rights because they are fundamental needs. Evertything else is optional and earned...
View ArticleRe: Patent is a RIGHT
You are correct. Patents are supposed to be awarded to INDIVIDUALS (as well as copyrights), but some extremely unwise judge in history ruled one day that a company should be granted the same rights as...
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It is a property right. Yes, it is limited, just like other property rights - real estate, firearms, copyright,... Is food really a right, if you have nothing to pay for it? I guess I shouldn't address...
View ArticleRe: Patent is a RIGHT
Nobody is that stupid to claim that "more patents or more patent applications... means more innovation" Actually Audi have an advert in the UK at the moment I quote(ish) "to date NASA have filed 6xxx...
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Will anyone argue that the huge companies that got patents for drugs like V*****a, Prozac were "not innovative" or unprofitable?
View Articleanother nonsense from Mike
hey, Mike, This is really just a BS argument. Patents awarded to people for real inventions (not corporate BS patents) promote the progress by giving people incentives to come up with those inventions...
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Investment chases return, thats just Economics 101. Patents allow people to be rewarded with their inventions. Take away that incentive, and you will see less resources and less money going into...
View Articletinfoil hat time
does anyone have an idea how many innovative things have actually been stifled due to patents being bought and shelved. is there any serious research done there? one would think that large institutions...
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does anyone have an idea how many innovative things have actually been stifled due to patents being bought and shelved. is there any serious research done there? one would think that large institutions...
View ArticleSo that'd be the end of the world and everything t
So we are basically saying that without patents no one would innovate and nothing would move forward, companies would not invest in anything and development would stop? Wow Never thought of it like...
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"Patents awarded to people for real inventions (not corporate BS patents) promote the progress by giving people incentives to come up with those inventions in the first place and then share the...
View ArticleRe: Re: another nonsense from Mike
"..And believe me, real innovators shit good ideas before breakfast. It's hard *not* to have good ideas once your mind is tuned that way..." You described me to a tee!! Damn near gave me goosebumps....
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