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> fail to recognize how hard it is to come up with something legitimately new The vast majority of process and software patents seem to not actually be new tho
by gregmac 11y ago
> fail to recognize how hard it is to come up with something legitimately new
The vast majority of process and software patents seem to not actually be new though, and the patent system explicitly doesn't reward 'new' in the general sense, it rewards 'new to the patent system' (aka first to file)
> and verify that it works.
In most patent troll litigation, the holder of the patent hasn't verified or actually built anything.
In my opinion, research labs should be rewarded for their work finding genuinely 'new' things. That includes benefiting from another entity building or developing what they found. It doesn't include sitting on the patent waiting for someone else to 'discover' or simply do the same thing, wait for them to profit for a few years, then sue.
- saulrh 11y agoI agree with what you've said here: inventing things that are actually new is difficult and the people that don't invent things that are actually new shouldn't be rewarded. Patent trolls are a thing, and people patenting boring junk is also a thing. The things is, saying things like "only execution matters" goes too far in the other direction, and, like you said, cuts out research labs and similar endeavors.