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So this invention which could remove a significant portion of human suffering is being squatted on? And because it is patented no one else can remove this suffe
by wussboy 6y ago
So this invention which could remove a significant portion of human suffering is being squatted on? And because it is patented no one else can remove this suffering either?
- 95014_refugee 6y agoNot necessarily, or yet, but it would certainly fit IV's MO if it were.
- silexia 6y agoWhat a nightmare. The patent system is enormously harmful to the world and should be done away with.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoDepends on whether you think people would work nights and weekends to get an idea out the door if someone with more money can immediately copy and profit. History says no, but maybe there is a different system.
- rightbyte 6y agoHow many sucessful patents are from freestanding inventors nowadays actually? The main in-action of patent I have seen is patents being hoarded in big corporations. If the engineers work nights and weekends at those it is their own fault.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoThey are rewarded with salaries that have never before existed outside of law/business/rent seeking (kings/land owners/etc.), the main power brokers of wealth in most of human history.
- jacquesm 6y agoThey're called Intellectual Vultures in some circles...
- jtwaleson 6y agoMaybe this could be considered prior art: a satirical Dutch commercial from 2007 (or earlier) about the "Star Wars Mosquito Defence System" https://youtu.be/TGkPMZxWPpA https://youtu.be/TGkPMZxWPpA