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The new paradigm of industrial design. Design a new product, sell them 'till the trolls catch up, move on to the next product. If you can't fix the patent syste
by noonespecial 14y ago
The new paradigm of industrial design. Design a new product, sell them 'till the trolls catch up, move on to the next product. If you can't fix the patent system, outrun it.
- arjunnarayan 14y agoYou've just described the haute couture fashion industry, which functions in exactly this way because they can't copyright or patent their designs.
- WalterSear 14y agoFWIW, the fashion induatry works this way on purpose, in order to drive product. The factories that put out the knockoffs are often the ones that produced the original. Knockoffs saturate the market making, last season's product unfashionable, so haute couture consumers have to buy new stuff again. As a corollary, the knockoffs subsidize the genuine article's production runs, so both the manufacturers and the design companies benefit from this. Source: my wife, working in manufacturing in Shenzhen right.now.