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How do you get rid of patents without getting rid of intellectual property? Do you mean setting up better infrastructure for licensing?
by nancyhua 14y ago
How do you get rid of patents without getting rid of intellectual property? Do you mean setting up better infrastructure for licensing?
- roryokane 14y agoAccording to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property, types of intellectual property other than patents include copyright, trademarks, industrial design rights, and trade secrets. You could get rid of patents while keeping those other types of intellectual property.
- PatentTroll 14y agoAnd what's the efficacy of copyright, trademark, design rights, and trade secrets in protecting a new process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter? The first three are not applicable, and the fourth may protect innovation but comes at the expense of no public disclosure.
- planckscnst 14y agoLook at ARM. They license design rights and they're pretty successful.
- nancyhua 14y agoI agree. I don't know how you could have IP without patents.
- cwp 14y agoNone. And that's the point. The idea here is to stop granting monopoly on on these areas. But that won't affect, for example, authors, musicians or marketers. It won't allow anyone to start screening movies without paying royalties, or a new social network called "Facefolio" or proprietary products based on GPL'd code.