Comments on: Don’t Look at that Patent! http://techliberation.com/2007/08/20/dont-look-at-that-patent/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Sat, 26 May 2012 22:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: fre http://techliberation.com/2007/08/20/dont-look-at-that-patent/comment-page-1/#comment-49018 fre Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:53:49 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/20/dont-look-at-that-patent/#comment-49018 <p>Obviously this article is correct. Than anyone would suggest analysis only suggests they are losing the forest for the trees. Patents are only defensible with an expensive lawyer. No normal little guy is going to have this. Thus only the industrial powers that be will have the power to fight it out over any given intellectual territory. Not to mention that even the <em>valid</em> patents are little more than copyrighting the word <em>THE</em>.</p> Obviously this article is correct. Than anyone would suggest analysis only suggests they are losing the forest for the trees. Patents are only defensible with an expensive lawyer. No normal little guy is going to have this. Thus only the industrial powers that be will have the power to fight it out over any given intellectual territory. Not to mention that even the valid patents are little more than copyrighting the word THE.

]]> By: fre http://techliberation.com/2007/08/20/dont-look-at-that-patent/comment-page-1/#comment-39155 fre Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:53:49 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/20/dont-look-at-that-patent/#comment-39155 <p>Obviously this article is correct. Than anyone would suggest analysis only suggests they are losing the forest for the trees. Patents are only defensible with an expensive lawyer. No normal little guy is going to have this. Thus only the industrial powers that be will have the power to fight it out over any given intellectual territory. Not to mention that even the <em>valid</em> patents are little more than copyrighting the word <em>THE</em>.</p> Obviously this article is correct. Than anyone would suggest analysis only suggests they are losing the forest for the trees. Patents are only defensible with an expensive lawyer. No normal little guy is going to have this. Thus only the industrial powers that be will have the power to fight it out over any given intellectual territory. Not to mention that even the valid patents are little more than copyrighting the word THE.

]]> By: eee_eff http://techliberation.com/2007/08/20/dont-look-at-that-patent/comment-page-1/#comment-49017 eee_eff Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:02:22 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/20/dont-look-at-that-patent/#comment-49017 <p><i>I’m at a loss to see how this system is benefitting anyone other than patent lawyers.</i><br><br>Probably some lazy market incumbants, who 'benefit' from not having to innovate.<br><br>But we have already scrapped the bottom of the barrel here.<br><br>The other interesting thing to do, I would think, is to look at innovative periods in history, and analyze how patents, copyrights, and trade secrets functioned during those times.<br><br>Aware of any good studies along those lines?<br><br>The coverage of the period during the development of radio technology, from it's invention to radio become a mass market consumer product would be interesting to me.<br><br>There was a summary of this period in Steal this Idea, M. Perelman concluded that the 'patent busting' that occurred during WWI was critical to the innovation that followed the war.</p> I’m at a loss to see how this system is benefitting anyone other than patent lawyers.

Probably some lazy market incumbants, who ‘benefit’ from not having to innovate.

But we have already scrapped the bottom of the barrel here.

The other interesting thing to do, I would think, is to look at innovative periods in history, and analyze how patents, copyrights, and trade secrets functioned during those times.

Aware of any good studies along those lines?

The coverage of the period during the development of radio technology, from it’s invention to radio become a mass market consumer product would be interesting to me.

There was a summary of this period in Steal this Idea, M. Perelman concluded that the ‘patent busting’ that occurred during WWI was critical to the innovation that followed the war.

]]> By: enigma_foundry http://techliberation.com/2007/08/20/dont-look-at-that-patent/comment-page-1/#comment-39154 enigma_foundry Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:02:22 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/20/dont-look-at-that-patent/#comment-39154 <p><i>I’m at a loss to see how this system is benefitting anyone other than patent lawyers.</i></p> <p>Probably some lazy market incumbants, who 'benefit' from not having to innovate.</p> <p>But we have already scrapped the bottom of the barrel here.</p> <p>The other interesting thing to do, I would think, is to look at innovative periods in history, and analyze how patents, copyrights, and trade secrets functioned during those times.</p> <p>Aware of any good studies along those lines?</p> <p>The coverage of the period during the development of radio technology, from it's invention to radio become a mass market consumer product would be interesting to me.</p> <p>There was a summary of this period in Steal this Idea, M. Perelman concluded that the 'patent busting' that occurred during WWI was critical to the innovation that followed the war.</p> I’m at a loss to see how this system is benefitting anyone other than patent lawyers.

Probably some lazy market incumbants, who ‘benefit’ from not having to innovate.

But we have already scrapped the bottom of the barrel here.

The other interesting thing to do, I would think, is to look at innovative periods in history, and analyze how patents, copyrights, and trade secrets functioned during those times.

Aware of any good studies along those lines?

The coverage of the period during the development of radio technology, from it’s invention to radio become a mass market consumer product would be interesting to me.

There was a summary of this period in Steal this Idea, M. Perelman concluded that the ‘patent busting’ that occurred during WWI was critical to the innovation that followed the war.

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