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No one is going to commercialize anything without exclusive rights. The hard part isn't in creating an invention[0], it's making an invention into a product tha
by thereisnospork 5y ago
No one is going to commercialize anything without exclusive rights. The hard part isn't in creating an invention[0], it's making an invention into a product that can be married to a market. Never mind that if someone out of the public does want to have another go, IP can be bought from the failed company in liquidation or it will be abandoned when filing fees lapse.
[0]See every news article about how the latest research out of Misc. U is going to revolutionize lithium batteries, vs. the number of actual revolutions in lithium ion batteries.
- zucker42 5y agoI disagree that no one is going to commercialize anything without exclusive rights. Most things that are commercialized are done so without exclusive rights. We don't see restaurants patent new dishes, yet they create new dishes nonetheless. Most web startups don't have exclusive rights to their ideas. Drugs in the public domain still get produced and sold.