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> 7. End Automatic publication of patent applications. This seems very problematic. Publication of pending patents gives others the opportunity to demonstrate
by thethirdone 5y ago
> 7. End Automatic publication of patent applications.
This seems very problematic. Publication of pending patents gives others the opportunity to demonstrate prior work before the patent is granted.
- rafaelturk 5y agoNow include new complicating factor: AI creating thousands of patients per day and you have a big mess. One that ends with no one being able to innovate.
- bee_rider 5y agoEasy fix -- until the day when we've created a truly sentient AI (one which should be considered a person), only natural persons to hold patents (make them non-transferable as well and we'll have made a good bit of progress against patent trolls). If we ever do create an artificial entity that rises to the level of true personhood, we'll have to reconsider a whole bunch of laws anyway, but this seems like a decent temporary fix until then.
- fatnoah 5y agoIt also allows a convenient way to publicly disclose inventions so that others can't then patent them and block you.