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Percentage ownership of resultant intellectual property. A good example is the Minneola, a wonderful citrus fruit. The plant patent is owned by three parties:
by austincheney 6y ago
Percentage ownership of resultant intellectual property.
A good example is the Minneola, a wonderful citrus fruit. The plant patent is owned by three parties: the University of Minnesota and the two inventors.
- varjag 6y agoLargely inapplicable beyond applied sciences.
- whatshisface 6y agoImagine how much the Maxwell Trust would own today... The biggest problem with a viral IP system is that there would be nothing left for applied scientists.
- varjag 6y agoAnd science would likely devolve into patent trolling system.
- logifail 6y ago> Percentage ownership of resultant intellectual property. Pfft. I've been through this, my ex-supervisor attempted to file a patent which included a bunch of figures and illustrations I drew single-handedly while writing up my PhD and which were lifted from my thesis without my consent. My PhD was funded by a government research council. My ex-supervisor was filing a patent on behalf of a private company he set up to run in parallel out of his university laboratory. There are some people who just don't care about rules and figure they can just ask for forgiveness later. I'm still cross about this, over 20 years later.
- nmfisher 6y ago“Attempted”, meaning this wasn’t successful?
- zucker42 6y agoOf all the possible alternative measurement or incentive systems for scientific progress, I can hardly think of a more meaningless and damaging one than patents. There's a huge problem of companies submitting vague, overbroad, or superfluous patents. And plus it does nothing to address the major problem indicated in the original article: we don't incentive people to produce important research.