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James Dyson made 5,167 prototypes before he came up with the winning formula for the Dyson cleaner. I doubt that he could have become a successful billionaire w
by richardburton 17y ago
James Dyson made 5,167 prototypes before he came up with the winning formula for the Dyson cleaner. I doubt that he could have become a successful billionaire without the right to fight off the companies who tried to make a quick buck out all his hard work.
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- coffeeaddicted 17y agoMaking sure inventors get rich is not the aim of the patent-system. Most people work hard every day and there isn't a system in place to make sure they will all profit from that real big one day. So yes - there are people which profit from the patent-system, as there are always people which profit from a monopoly. And exceptionally one of those people profiting from it is even the one who put most work in it. So it might be a slightly better system than a pure lottery. Except that I'm not forced to play lottery, while I'm forced to partake in the patent-system. I would prefer not doing so. Make it an open-choice and I'm fine with it, because then I will avoid taking part in the patent-lottery as much as I avoid taking part in any other lottery. And don't worry, that won't stop me from inventing, actually it will make working for me on new stuff a lot easier.