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Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Sondre Bjellås <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sondre-list@bjellas.com"><sondre-list@bjellas.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">You are exactly right regarding searching for any topic on the web ;-)
Which is why I'm asking "who and what" is the reason for your statement:
"Clearly, yes, patenting stimulates innovation"
The content I read on patents does not clearly say that patent stimulates,
on the contrary, I must be reading the wrong material.
Check for instance "Against Intellectual Property" by Stephan
Kinsella: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/7511095/Against-Intellectual-Property-by-Stephan-Kinsella">http://www.scribd.com/doc/7511095/Against-Intellectual-Property-by-Stephan-Kinsella</a>-
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### OK, let's start at the beginning:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.jstor.org/pss/4132712">http://www.jstor.org/pss/4132712</a>
Countries without strong patent protection did not produce innovations
except in the industrial branches where profits from innovation could
be realized without patent protection.
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One can ask, how would the profits be realized if everyone was
immediately able to legally copy the industrial inventions that would
have been patent protected before? Wouldn't the R&D cost be a
disadvantage to the creating company as all other competitors gut the
successful results of that R&D for free or only for the cost of
implementing the known working design? <br>
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- samantha<br>
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