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This is great to see but also reveals some failures around patents: Intellectual Ventures patented the idea a couple decades ago, did a TED Talk, decided it was
by acdha 2mo ago
This is great to see but also reveals some failures around patents: Intellectual Ventures patented the idea a couple decades ago, did a TED Talk, decided it wasn’t as cost-effective for malaria prevention as bednets and apparently sat on it.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123680870885500701 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123680870885500701
I wanted to buy one back then and still do, and it always seemed short-sighted that they didn’t sell them here for quality of life improvements and use that to get volume and R&D to drive down the cost to use them in public health campaigns. It feels like we lost a lot by not having patents be a “use, license, or lose it” situatio
- tdeck 2mo agoIsn't Intellectual Ventures basically a patent troll? Everything they have they sit on.
- acdha 2mo agoI believe the labs unit was setup specifically to change that reputation but it doesn’t appear to have shipped anything substantial.
- metalman 2mo agobullshit, somehow , and by any means ,the zapping of mosquitos is an idea older than our species and fits into a whole class of inventions that are waiting for a specific new technical ability to achive and are therefor unpatentable. like the idea of patent trolls convulsing and dieing when exposed to a certain musical tone, deadly to those minds that are tuned to mindless greed.