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100% agree. Pretty sure the original idea of patents was to protect the inventor while they brought a product to market or licensed the patent to others to imp

• freejazz 3y ago
  >Pretty sure the original idea of patents was to protect the inventor while they brought a product to market or licensed the patent to others to improve their products. It was to protect the inventor so that when they did take it to market, or license it, someone else couldn't just make a copy of the same thing and sell it for cheaper not having to recoup r&d costs. >Holding a patent without even attempting to bring the idea to market should invalidate the patent after some reasonable amount of time. Patents are already invalid after a certain amount of time. I'm not sure what you think a reasonable time to bring a new invention to market is, but it's not far off from what the limits on patents are already today anyway. By the way, where do you think these patents come from? They belong to companies that couldn't succeed in the market for various reasons. They go under and they sell their assets, which in these cases include any claims that could accrue to them by the short period of exclusivity granted to them for their invention.