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IMO patents should not be transferable. And maybe they shouldn't be assignable to corporate entities, only to people. Multiple people at once if they all contri
by grishka 2y ago
IMO patents should not be transferable. And maybe they shouldn't be assignable to corporate entities, only to people. Multiple people at once if they all contributed to the invention.
- jessriedel 2y agoThis would massively disenfranchise small inventors, and force all inventive work into large companies. There is no reason that the person who does the inventing should also be the person developing and selling a product. It is weird and unfortunate that the longstanding deficiencies with patent law (chiefly: issuing patents for things that are too obvious or numerous) are being blamed on transferability of property rights. It’s the same broken intuition as over regulating housing construction and then blaming high housing costs on ownership by Chinese nationals.
- ric2b 2y agoInventors could just license their inventions, no need to produce themselves or transfer them.