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Once Again: The Number Of Patents You Hold Does Not Equal How Much Innovation You've Done
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| This is a real shame, because we've
| discussed before how the massive patent
| thickets in the hybrid car space have been
| holding back innovation and development in
| that space. In fact, Ford had a big tussle
| with Toyota a few years back after Toyota
| sued Ford and the two companies wasted tons
| of money and time in court, until the court
| finally pointed out that Ford did not
| infringe.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091106/0339216830.shtml
Ford Lags in Alt-Energy Patents
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2009/11/ford_lags_in_al.html
Bilski v. Kappos: Both Sides Have Strengths, Weaknesses
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| When the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments
| in the case of Bilski v. Kappos earlier
| this week, many tech companies sent their
| representatives, and patent lawyers also
| sat in. They wanted to find out how the
| parties had framed the issues and how the
| court would focus its attention. If they
| could see that, then maybe they could
| attempt to predict how the court would rule
| in this "most high-stakes patent case."
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/bentley/bilski-v-kappos-both-sides-have-strengths-weaknesses/?cs=37447
Apple pen-tablet plan revives Newtonian handwriting
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/13/apple_pen_tablet_patent_filing/
Recent:
What Kind Of Innovation Do Patents Encourage?
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| Petra Moser's research comparing innovation in
| countries with patents to those without patents has
| shown that countries without patents tend to be just
| as innovative, but that the innovation takes different
| forms. Thus, patents tend to divert from the natural
| market of innovation to areas that are more easily
| "protectable."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090921/0217286260.shtml
Patents: Horizontal vs Vertical Innovation
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| Its true that if you put your labor into an idea then
| you should be allowed to consume the fruits of it, but
| the only reason why you put that much labor into that
| idea(or innovation or discovery) is because you were
| excluded from using someone elseâs labor. Intellectual
| Property is a classic solution created by the problem
| itself, just like everything else in the world done by
| the government.
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http://www.reasonforliberty.com/reason/patents-horizontal-vs-vertical-innovation.html
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.
|
| 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.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20071101145010612
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