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The case against patents.... inneresting take....
Tom Gardner wrote: "Existential Angst" wrote in message ... Case against patents: http://www.tinaja.com/glib/casagpat.pdf Lots more of this, as Lancaster is prolific, to say the least. Whaddaya think? Certainly an original inneresting take, that I can find nowhere else on the web. Most of the search retrievals involved the ethics, constitutionality, economic-growth-type implications, but not pure CYA effectivenss of the patenting process. Here or elsewhere, he does peg a kind of "break-even point" for a patent, as $12 mil is sales -- if you expect to sell $12 mil worth of your product, then mebbe patent it. This was in 1993, tho. -- EA Every one of my nine patents has been stolen and produced in China. My lawyer asked me how much money do I want to throw away. Consider yourself lucky, someone could push through a nebulous patent and then once they receive it turn around and sue you claiming that your long established products infringe their (bogus) patent. I've seen it personally and the offenders made tens of millions. |
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