Patents were originally intended, and are usually used (for better
or for worse), as a mechanism for protecting inventors and their
licensees from competition. But I've noticed a couple of areas where
patents are also used as a security mechanism, aiming to prevent the
unauthorized production of
Matt Blaze wrote:
Patents were originally intended, and are usually used (for better
or for worse), as a mechanism for protecting inventors and their
licensees from competition. But I've noticed a couple of areas where
patents are also used as a security mechanism, aiming to prevent the
Matt Blaze wrote:
Patents were originally intended, and are usually used (for better
or for worse), as a mechanism for protecting inventors and their
licensees from competition.
That's an oversimplification. Patents were originally
intended as a bargain between the inventors and the
society
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 11:02:25AM -0500, Matt Blaze wrote:
One example close to home is the DVD patents, which, in addition to
providing income for the DVD patent holders, also allows them to prevent
the production of players that don't meet certain requirements. This
effectively reduces the
