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Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. A patent is a tool for doing 1% of the work and then waiting for someone else to do the other 99% so you can sue.
by api 16y ago
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. A patent is a tool for doing 1% of the work and then waiting for someone else to do the other 99% so you can sue.
I'm being a bit extreme there... I think there should be something like a patent. But, it should be very hard to get. Maybe only 1% of current patents should have been allowed. It might be lower than that.
A patent should only be allowed on something fundamental, conceptual, highly novel, and unprecedented, and there should be a significant burden of proof on the patenter to prove all that.
- mmt 16y agoA patent should only be allowed on something fundamental, conceptual, highly novel, and unprecedented, and there should be a significant burden of proof on the patenter to prove all that. Agreed, except I would substitute "tangible" for "conceptual," as the current laxness in the system could, arguably, be attributed to a departure from a tangibility requirement.
- kljensen 16y agoPatents work very well in more traditional arts, for example mechanical devices. They're not perfect, but they're good enough at stimulating innovation that most countries have a patent system and they actively encourage their citizens to use it. They're also time tested: the US framers thought so much of patents that they wrote the patent system into our tiny Constitution.