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How many people do you know who didn't create a startup because of patents ? I'm not saying patent reform isn't important, but it's probably not even in the to
by ig1 15y ago
How many people do you know who didn't create a startup because of patents ?
I'm not saying patent reform isn't important, but it's probably not even in the top-100 problems the average startup faces.
- mslate 15y agoI think that's not how OP was thinking about it. People may not be able to create a startup--or even think to do so--because someone else's patented product could be unavailable to them (due to monopoly pricing), not because they feared that their final product wouldn't be strongly patentable. The number of people who are prohibited from even being be able to obtain the knowledge to innovate is uncountable. Of course it's a trade-off between incentivizing innovation on one hand and enabling the spread of knowledge on the other, but needless to say the number of people who didn't create a startup because of patents is inestimable (not inestimably high, just inestimable).