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And what's the efficacy of copyright, trademark, design rights, and trade secrets in protecting a new process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter?
by PatentTroll 14y ago
And 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.