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If you don't have a patent on an invention then how do you protect it from people who will just steal what you have spent time/money creating?
by Steven420 2y ago
If you don't have a patent on an invention then how do you protect it from people who will just steal what you have spent time/money creating?
- TrinaryWorksToo 2y agoPatents no longer go to individual people. They go to corporations. Perhaps we should ban corporations from getting patents on behalf of people.
- OJFord 2y agoThat would be.. interesting from a compensation & retention (& poaching!) perspective!
- fallingknife 2y agoSo the work of 1000 people at a company may have gone into developing the tech that is to be patented, but we must restrict the patent to being owned by one single individual?
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- rundev 2y ago1. If you are first to market and still can't make money off your amazing invention, that might be a skill issue. 2. Patents wouldn't be as forceful if they didn't last that long. A decade or more is basically forever in a fast-moving field like tech.
- itsoktocry 2y ago>If you are first to market and still can't make money off your amazing invention, that might be a skill issue. Sounds like something a VC would say. Have you considered that inventing things and selling them are two different skill sets? The patent system needs reform, not elimination.
- financltravsty 2y agoWhy would you artificially encumber a significant invention from benefitting the world just because you don't have the wherewithal to sell it? Seems awfully self-centered.
- brewdad 2y agoI mean the patent is public information. If you want to have a go at selling it, buy it or license it from me and have at it. Otherwise, invent your own idea or wait for mine to expire.
- financltravsty 2y agoOr I could lobby for patent reform so one person doesn't hold up the progress of everyone else via selfishness.
- mkatx 2y agoThe patent system certainly needs reform, but I think more along the lines of what gets accepted as a patent. Discovering what I would describe as a 'natural law' should not be patentable (but I think happens everyday), and those ideas should not be kept from human progress, imho. There's a line between research paper and patent, that I believe is blurred for profit. But a true invention, a novel use of those laws, should be patentable. Are you saying that if you discover a novel use of natural laws, a product that could be capitalized, your own unique idea, that you should not be able to capitalize on it? Maybe this would work in a trek economy, but not with capitalism. If your worried about innovation, how innovative could we be if discoveries/inventions were squandered because there are no protections if you happen to even mention your idea to someone?
- treyd 2y agoThis is what patents used to do, but the economic and technological circumstances under which they did have changed dramatically over the last couple hundred years. All they really do now is entrench the power of the massive corporations with the capital to buy them up and sue anyone that they think encroach. It's not promoting innovation anymore, it's stifling it.
- fallingknife 2y agoPatents can be filed for around $2000