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Does anyone understand the purpose of patent law? It provides incentives to inventors to keep inventing. To denounce patent law because of a ptent troll is pr
by kwamenum86 18y ago
Does anyone understand the purpose of patent law? It provides incentives to inventors to keep inventing. To denounce patent law because of a ptent troll is pretty silly. The system needs tweaking but there patent law (and intellectual property law in general) allows creators to monetize innovation easily, which is incredibly important.
- gommm 18y agoFor me patent law is like communism, the purpose/ideals of it might be nice, but I'd like to see an implementation that does not suck...
- jbjohns 18y agoThen step outside the US.
- gommm 18y agoI'm french and living in japan. Japanese patent law is not much better than the us one (or at least from the little I learned about it) and in europe we are constantly fighting to prevent software patents... Now in truth, while I used to be interested in this, I haven't looked much in the question in the last few years.
- jbjohns 18y agoI'm not surprised that Japan's solution isn't very good (especially considering their some-what toxic property/business ownership laws), but it's a big step from "all the ones I'm familiar with suck" to "they all suck".
- gommm 18y agoThat's why I said 'I'd like to see an implementation that does not suck', it means all the ones I've seen (= familiar with) suck... :-)