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Yet Another Study Shows That Patents Lead To Sub-Optimal Innovation
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| A few months back, two professors, Andrew W. Torrance and Bill Tomlinson,
| published a paper on a simulation game they ran to test out some of these
| hypotheses. A bunch of folks submitted this back when it first came out, but
| I wanted to spend some time looking over the details before writing about it.
| Basically, Torrance and Tomlinson create a nice simulation system that really
| does a good job simulating the various models for innovation with patents or
| in a more collaborative world. And, what they found in the simulation they
| ran supports what has actually happened in the real world, according to the
| research we've discussed in the past:
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| These results indicate that current patent systems (that is, systems
| combining patent and open source protection for inventions) may generate
| significantly lower rates of innovation (p<0.05), productivity (p<0.001),
| and social utility (p<0.002) than does a commons system. This suggests
| that current patent systems may significantly deter, rather than spur,
| technological innovation compared to a commons system.
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| Specifically, the results compared three separate models: one where
| everything gets patented, one where it's a hybrid model with both patents and
| a common, and one that was pure commons. The results are pretty striking. In
| the pure commons (no patents) world, they ended up with more innovation,
| significantly greater productivity and massively more social utility.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090824/1430475981.shtml
Related:
Telling the Truth About Software Patents and Innovation
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| Would abolishing software patents, then, lessen innovation among large
| companies? Again, no. IBM, Microsoft and Oracle were founded before software
| could be patented. They couldn't afford to quit innovating simply because
| patent protection became unavailable. Â Â
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20071101145010612
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