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Would it make sense to only give patents to companies that are actively developing something and marketing a product? On that note, although this wouldn't work
by sycren 15y ago
Would it make sense to only give patents to companies that are actively developing something and marketing a product?
On that note, although this wouldn't work for ebooks, how about restrictive copyright for readers is only present while the book is still being published and sold?
- seagreen 15y agoTo address your first point about patents, I really think that would be a bad idea. Making the patent code more complicated just rewards the people who spend lots of effort on mastering its arcade rules and not making something people want. In this case, a requirement that your product had to be in production would be an easy thing to get around if you had money and know-how (just make a small run of the product that meets the bare minimum requirements), but could really mess up companies that don't have the money to do that, or haven't lawyered up and don't realize they have to.