Costs and Benefits of the Patent System
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| I have only just started the book, and I may not be sufficiently invested in
| the topic to go through it entirely. But the main thesis seems sound.
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| My intuition is that drug patents are ok, but software patents are bad. The
| authors' perspective supports this intuition. It is easier for drug patents
| to be based on clear boundaries and to satisfy the "notice function."
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http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/03/costs_and_benef.html
(Mis)Managing the Patent System
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| The current patent system in the U.S. drains entrepreneurship and
| small-business growth, a new study shows. Problems include high litigation
| costs, a decline in patent quality and differences among nations in terms of
| patent law.
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http://news.thomasnet.com/mt/rst.cgi/1437
Related:
Who is the world's biggest patent troll?
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| In two consecutive days, The Wall Street Journal presented two different
| answers. The first is not surprising: Intellectual Ventures, the brainchild
| of ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. It's now out "to raise as much as
| $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from
| universities in Asia."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9816163-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Opinion: behind the Acacia suit
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| It's a neat structure. Pump money into Acacia so it can attack Red Hat, and
| at the same time prove to the world how strong the Microsoft patent shield
| really is against those naughty, naughty trolls.
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| If this works with Acacia, perhaps we can expect a scaled-up attack by
| Intellectual Ventures on Linux users like Google and IBM.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-24106/opinion:behind-the-acacia-suit
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