Am 16.09.2009 um 09:48 schrieb Q:
Patents should be a way to protect yourself from having to compete against your own invention in a commercial market. Ie. Patents should exist for the purpose of protection from direct competition and utilising an idea or invention with exclusivity, not a way of extracting the maximum amount of revenue from everyone who finds value in your IP in some way.
I'm not sure you understand patents. Patents are reward for *full disclosure*. They are the reward for sharing your secret sauce so other can build ideas on top of it and you get a monopoly for that for a limited time. If the net benefit for society of this is smaller than if you had held your idea closed then they are harmful, impede commerce and innovation and should be dealt away with.
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