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Whilst good intentioned, it might well work the other way: Dedicated patent trolls will trivially overcome any hurdles by cheaply doing just enough to legally
by willvarfar 3y ago
Whilst good intentioned, it might well work the other way:
Dedicated patent trolls will trivially overcome any hurdles by cheaply doing just enough to legally demonstrate they are working on future commercial applications blah blah honest.
Meanwhile, it likely puts up a prohibitive cost that will prevent the smallest genuine inventors from inventing?
- ryandrake 3y agoThat's the big problem with societies based on the letter of the law vs. the spirit of the law. Human nature has repeatedly demonstrated that if the letter of the law is what matters, people will work night and day to technically comply with the letter of the law, so they can continue to do the bad thing legally. Whole cottage industries will spring up to guide businesses right up to that legal line and sell them the tools and techniques to ensure they barely don't cross it. In such a society, the rules need to be enormous and complex, much more than a 2 sentence HN post, to eliminate all the edge cases and loopholes everyone will naturally want to take advantage of.