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I don't think you're trying to imagine hard enough. Imagine an inventor or small business who spends years perfecting a process to improve the production of, s
by scarmig 14y ago
I don't think you're trying to imagine hard enough.
Imagine an inventor or small business who spends years perfecting a process to improve the production of, say, steel. After much work, he publishes it in a journal. What do you think all the steel corporations will do? Will they nicely hand over a bag with ten million dollars in it?
This isn't to say that patents in general or as they exist now are a good idea, but there are certainly ways that eliminating them could and would hurt the little guy.
- jivatmanx 14y agoToday if such an inventor published his idea in a public journal before patenting it, the same thing would happen because it would be prior art. But in any case, patents are entirely unnecessary for a small inventor to sell his idea. Just create a contract with the company to sell the idea. Your side of the contract says that you promise that your process works according to the parameters of efficiency you say it does, and that you won't reveal it to anyone else. The company's side says he hands over 10 million dollars.