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And that's a strawman. Let me ask you, as a rational, profit-seeking individual or organization looking to secure revenue from your new invention in a patent-f
by tadfisher 12y ago
And that's a strawman.
Let me ask you, as a rational, profit-seeking individual or organization looking to secure revenue from your new invention in a patent-free society. Do you:
a. Volunteer the details of your invention to your competitors?
b. Keep these details secret?
Moreover, what would it take to get you to choose option a?
- nitrogen 12y agoc. Appear to volunteer the details, but obfuscate them so deeply in patentese that nobody can ever tease them out, but I still get to sue my competitors.
- chris_wot 12y agoHow is that a strawman? He said that patents were introduced to allow ideas to be disseminated. That's a faulty premise. However, to handle your own strawman, the answer is b. I'd keep the details secret. Which is not a problem, because there have been many, many occassions when someone reverse engineers the work or comes up with the idea completely independently.