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The USPTO exists to protect investments into intellectual property and help ensure economic costs of development are distributed amongst it's users. If you're
by bduerst 11y ago
The USPTO exists to protect investments into intellectual property and help ensure economic costs of development are distributed amongst it's users.
If you're going to generalize patents and copyrights as just "a business having costs" then you're grossly oversimplifying it.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago> The USPTO exists to protect investments into intellectual property and help ensure economic costs of development are distributed amongst it's users It could also be looked at, "The USPTO, and Congress, have allowed patent and copyright holders the ability to rent seek far beyond what was ever intended when the USPTO, copyright, and patents were first conceived."
- bduerst 11y agoThat's why the roundup ready tech patent expired in 2015. IP creators are given a set timeframe to recooperate costs. You can now replant your roundup ready seeds, toomuchtodo, as much as you want.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoA few patents down, 4k-6k more to go.
- bduerst 11y ago>Or I wait long enough for an intelligent majority of Congress to invalidate the ability to patent or copyright seeds. Good luck with that, considering the constitution grants Congress the power to promote scientific progress through granting limited exclusive rights to authors. I doubt they will find invalidating seed patents aligned with promoting scientific progress. Edit: nice redaction
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- toomuchtodo 11y agoTech always wins in the end, and all old men die eventually.
- gozur88 11y agoThat argument hinges more on copyright than patents, though. A patent on something like Roundup-resistant seeds lasts twenty years. A copyright can last well over a hundred years.
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