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Group Buying and Coupons: All Patented Up!
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100419/1247089083.shtml
Tippr Buys Up Patents to Take on Groupon
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| Could a broad set of patents around collective
| buying be the ammo Tippr needs to chase
| Groupon? Thatâs what CEO Martin Tobias is
| betting, having bought up the intellectual
| property generated by bubble-era Mercata from
| its investor Paul Allen.
|
| Groupon â which is in the process of raising
| $130 million on a $1.35 billion valuation for
| offering online deals redeemed at local
| businesses, according to TechCrunch â is a
| runaway hit. And a hundred or so other
| companies in the collective buying space are
| duking it out to grab a share of that market.
| But Tippr, which just launched in February,
| has a special weapon up its sleeve:
| intellectual property.
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http://gigaom.com/2010/04/16/tippr-buys-up-collective-buying-patents-to-take-on-groupon/
Yeah...... /real/ 'innovation'.
Compulsory Licensing Rather Than Artificial Monopolies?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100202/1757018011.shtml
Abundance Based Intellectual Property System
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| The intended purpose of intellectual property
| laws is to promote discovery and encourage
| sharing of ideas. A system that rewards great
| discoveries and also makes the realization of
| the ideas available to as many people as
| cheaply as possible is the ideal system. Using
| the concepts of Abundance that system can be
| achieved.
|
| The patent and copyright system creates
| artificial scarcity. Its stated goal is to
| promote the sharing of ideas but it does not
| work. Its not just broken, it was wrong from
| the start. It assumes that good ideas are
| scarce and the only way to get people to share
| their ideas is to give them a monopoly,
| creating a temporary scarcity.
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http://markproffitt.com/2009/11/03/abundance-based-intellectual-property-system/
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