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Yeah, I think IP creates a local-maxima where it seems essential to have IP to have innovation. But, it’s not at all clear to me that it doesn’t simultaneously
by fiddlerwoaroof 5y ago
Yeah, I think IP creates a local-maxima where it seems essential to have IP to have innovation. But, it’s not at all clear to me that it doesn’t simultaneously restrict innovation: all the locked down walled gardens, content silos and such make it significantly harder for people to recombine inventions in unforeseen ways.
- bcrl 5y agoPatents certainly cause unforeseen damage all the time, sometimes with damages with far too many zeros to be considered at all reasonable (like what happened to Blackberry a few years back). My personal belief regarding software is that if a skilled practitioner of the art can come up with a particular solution when given similar design constraints for solving a problem, the solution should not be considered novel and worthy of patent protection. Sadly this is not anywhere close to how patents actually work in the real world.
- makapuf 5y agoI'd agree with your definition of novel except for the addition "in a minimal timeframe or effort" because else of course you can replicate the same outcomes with about the same effort.