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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">></font>From: Kaj Sotala <xuenay@gmail.com><br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>>On 2/22/08, <a href="mailto:ABlainey@aol.com">ABlainey@aol.com</a> <<a href="mailto:ABlainey@aol.com">ABlainey@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I have been thinking recently about patents and whether they are<br>
>> fundamentally wrong. As an inventor I have no problem with people getting<br>
><br>
>I don't know about "fundamentally wrong", but they do slow down<br>
>innovation. <a href="http://www.dklevine.com/papers/ip.ch.1.m1004.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.dklevine.com/papers/ip.ch.1.m1004.pdf</a> has a<br>
>nice historical example about how the patent system put off the<br>
>industrial revolution for a couple of decades.<br>
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Perhaps 'fundamentally wrong' is not appropriate? <br>
my simple logic goes:<br>
The patent system is to give credit(recognition), protection and renumeration to the 'Inventor'<br>
but<br>
1)The inventer must have sufficient funds to pay for the patent<br>
2)The inventer may be working as an employee of a company, so he usually does not get credit and rarely profits except continued employment.<br>
3)For any protection action to be made, the inventor needs further funds for a legal fight.<br>
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So as I see it, the inventor has to be in a pretty specific situation in order for the system to work. Mainly based upon finances.<br>
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Thanks for the link, I haven't read it yet, but i'm wondering if any delay caused by the patent system is giving 'compound interest'?<br>
Should the singularity have occured decades ago?<br>
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Alex<br>
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