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Would work even better if patents were non-transferable and only assignable to actual people, not companies or other entities.
by grishka 3y ago
Would work even better if patents were non-transferable and only assignable to actual people, not companies or other entities.
- hcrean 3y agoWhat if Bob and Alice and Charlie all had a hand in developing invention X... suddenly we would find ourselves just redefining companies.
- grishka 3y agoThen you assign the patent to them collectively by listing them all as inventors. It's not redefining companies because it's still assigned to people, not an abstract entity that can arbitrarily change hands in the future.