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You can't grant a monopoly on an invention without describing the invention. You need something for judges to decide if there is infringement. Disclosure is jus
by guelo 13y ago
You can't grant a monopoly on an invention without describing the invention. You need something for judges to decide if there is infringement. Disclosure is just a side effect of how patents work, it's not the purpose.
The idea is to promote science by granting exclusive rights, as it says in the constitution. Not to promote science by publishing vague legalistic descriptions of inventions. Inventors do not go rummaging through patent documents for ideas.
- bitJericho 13y agoPatent descriptions didn't used to be vague. That's a relatively new technique in avoiding the disclosure requirements legally. Look at the Wright Brother's patent: http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/i/Wrights/WrightUSPatent/WrightPatent.html http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/i/Wrights/WrightUSPa... The document makes perfect sense. Just randomly pick a point and start reading and you learn what they had researched and discovered.
- lotsofmangos 13y agoPatents were already a legal device long before European pilgrims settled Jamestown. The original reasons behind patents existing, assuming the non-existence of time machines, has nothing whatsoever to do with the constitution of the USA.