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filed under post slug "Patent Fail":
Giving Up On Patents
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| Not so many years ago, even as I was filled
| with fear and loathing of the hideous
| misconduct of the US Patent & Trademark
| Office, I retained some respect for the
| notion of patents. I even wrote what I
| think is an unusually easy-to-read
| introduction to Patent Theory. But no more.
| The whole thing is too broken to be fixed.
| Maybe it worked once, but it doesnât any
| more. The patent system needs to be torn
| down and thrown out.
|
| [...]
|
| And here are a few words for the huge
| community of legal professionals who make
| their living pursuing patent law: Youâre
| actively damaging society. Look in the
| mirror and find something better to do.
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/02/22/Patent-Fail
Links to the new article:
Reducing the Cost of IP Law
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| How should the IP system be reformed? For
| those with a principled, libertarian view
| of property rights, it is obvious that
| patent and copyright laws are unjust and
| should be completely abolished.[2] Total
| abolition is, however, exceedingly unlikely
| at present. Further, most people favor IP
| for less principled, utilitarian reasons.
| They take a wealth-maximization approach to
| policy making. They favor patent and
| copyright law because they believe that it
| generates net wealth â that the value of
| the innovation stimulated by IP law is
| significantly greater than the costs of
| these laws.[3]
|
| What is striking is that this myth is
| widely believed even though the IP
| proponents can adduce no evidence in favor
| of this hypothesis. There are literally no
| studies clearly showing any net gains from
| IP.[4] If anything, it appears that the
| patent system, for example, imposes a
| gigantic net cost on the economy
| (approximately $31 billion a year, in my
| estimate).[5] In any case, even those who
| support IP on cost-benefit grounds have to
| acknowledge the costs of the system, and
| they should not oppose changes to IP law
| that significantly reduce these costs, so
| long as the change does not drastically
| reduce the innovation gains that IP
| purportedly stimulates. In other words,
| according to the reasoning of IP advocates,
| if weakening patent strength reduces costs
| more than it reduces gains, this results in
| a net gain.
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http://mises.org/daily/4018
Recent:
Android Diary I
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| Around noon today, I picked up my unlocked Android G1 dev phone, and as of
| now itâs my main phone, plus Iâm trying to write an app for it. I suspect
| that my experiences are going to be shared by quite a few people in the
| not-too-distant future, so why not record them?
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/12/18/Android-Diary
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