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The case against patents.... inneresting take....
Existential Angst wrote: 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 In the current corrupted patent system you can make millions just pushing through a nebulous patent application and then distorting it's claims and suing a deep pockets company in front of the most ignorant jury you can find. I've seen it happen with the most bogus of claims, but when emotionally argued in front of a poorly educated jury the holder of what is really an invalid patent wins tens of millions. |
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