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What I mean is that it isn’t against the rules. You’re welcome to think it’s a little shady (and I won’t disagree), but it’s not improper. What’s improper abou
by egdod 7y ago
What I mean is that it isn’t against the rules. You’re welcome to think it’s a little shady (and I won’t disagree), but it’s not improper.
What’s improper about creating liquidity in the market for inventions? And patents don’t require the holder to make or sell anything—they give the holder the right to prevent others from doing so.
- rhinoceraptor 7y agoThere's a big difference between legal and ethical. And it's not creating liquidity in the market for inventions. It's creating liquidity in state-sanctioned and enforced monopoly rights of inventions.
- egdod 7y agoWithout that monopoly, there wouldn’t be much of a market for inventions.
- ric2b 7y agoOf course there would, there's a lot of money to be made from inventing something, even without a patent. And the biggest companies in the world aren't the biggest because they have patent protected monopolies.