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[News] Economist Thinks the World Would be Better Without Patents

  • Subject: [News] Economist Thinks the World Would be Better Without Patents
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:18:36 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Open Source Patents

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| Nice, creative idea. But note a few things. First, the OIN patent pooling 
| approach relies on the patent monopoly to work, since the potential threat of 
| a patent infringement lawsuit is what induces third parties to enter into the 
| OIN license (on the other hand, without the patent monopoly, there would be 
| no reason for OIN to exist).    
| 
| [...]
| 
| In other words, it's similar to the situation that would exist in the absence 
| of IP--without all the effort and waste to get a bunch of flaccid scraps of  
| paper. 
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http://blog.mises.org/archives/007126.asp


Related:

When Patents Threaten Science

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| Patents should not be used to protect laws of nature, products of
| nature, or mathematical formulas.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/314/5804/1395

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