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It's funny how patents are now used as an indicator of innovation here, while seemingly vocal majority here on HN would happily dismiss complete patent system a
by levosmetalo 12y ago
It's funny how patents are now used as an indicator of innovation here, while seemingly vocal majority here on HN would happily dismiss complete patent system as meaningless and and because it suppress innovation.
That being said, why would German companies rush to register their patents in US patent office? What is the ranking of US companies registering patents in Germany?
- dba7dba 12y agoSorry if I somehow indicated # of patents is the absolute measure of how innovative a company/nation is. It's not. I'm just saying it is ONE of the tools to show the article is flawed. Not ALL patents are useless, only some. And it's preposterous that Apple wants $50 per Samsung mobile device for allegedly infringing 2 or 3 patents when each mobile device touches upon about 250,000 patents (patent on manufacturing tool, patent on the manufacturing tech that was used to build the manufacturing tool, material, etc etc). But I digress. And # of patents assigned WAS one of the best tool for measuring innovativeness before some started abusing it (filing bogus patents, patent trolling). Global corporations file patents in US because US has largest market (or used to) and rule of law is strong.