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If your not actually using it in practice, how is that different from today? Do you really think making these trolls spend a bit of money to build a prototype f
by enjo 17y ago
If your not actually using it in practice, how is that different from today? Do you really think making these trolls spend a bit of money to build a prototype fixes it?
If this is going to work, you HAVE to come up with a system that forces the patent to be reduced to practice within some context.
Maybe you create classifications of patents:
- protective: Anyone can use it, you just can't sue me for using it.
- commercial protection: I am the only one allowed to use it, and I will be using it for some commercial purpose
- licensing protection: Anyone can use it if they license it from me, with the caveat that the term of protection is greatly reduced.
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- pbhjpbhj 17y agoWe're not talking a little "bit of money to build a prototype" in all cases though. Often a prototype would be impossible to build in a short time - suppose my invention is a new more efficient engine, it requires a few million in funding which I don't have; I've spent 15years developing the idea ... shouldn't I be allowed to sell my idea for even a little bit of money? If I present the idea to the companies who can make it - won't they just say, "you're not making it now, we'll wait a year" (or however long you're enshrining in your law) and then make it free from my license. If instead I'd spent that time coming up with a new cheaper way to make icecream, the machine takes me a couple of months and a few thousand $USD to make, then I sell my idea worldwide and become a billionaire; isn't that a bit of an unfortunate disparity? As an artisan inventor I'd only ever be able to successfully patent things I can make at home without outside funding.