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Patents protect the little guy from the manufacturers. A patent is supposed to secure the effort of R&D without necessarily having the budget for massive manuf
by nhumrich 4y ago
Patents protect the little guy from the manufacturers.
A patent is supposed to secure the effort of R&D without necessarily having the budget for massive manufacturing. It prevents the manufacturer from taking off with your idea and giving you nothing for it. It seperates the manufacturing cost and r&d cost.
In software, there is 0 manufacturing, it is entirely R&D. As soon as you have developed your product, its ready. Hence why patents feel so useless in software.
Also why software startups are so attractive to investors.
- Bran_son 4y ago> Patents protect the little guy from the manufacturers. As long as the little guy's patent can improve the process without stepping on any of the countless pre-existing patents manufacturers have accumulated. Now how often is that the case?
- strbean 4y ago> Patents protect the little guy from the manufacturers Except in the cases where manufacturers just stall the little guy in court for most of their life.