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That can't possibly work though. Patents only give an incentive to patent things that can be expected to be independently discovered or reverse engineered soone
by PepeGomez 12y ago
That can't possibly work though. Patents only give an incentive to patent things that can be expected to be independently discovered or reverse engineered sooner than the patent expires. There is no reason to patent things that could be kept as trade secrets for longer.
- spinlock 12y agoSorry, I didn't mean to imply that it worked, only that this was the idea behind the system. The practice of our patent system is pretty far off from this ideal.