Guides to the patent commons
Guides to the patent commons
Posted Apr 20, 2006 17:12 UTC (Thu) by grahammm (guest, #773)Parent article: Guides to the patent commons
The advice for developers (and others) to not look at patents goes right against their raison d'être - publishing in order to increase the pool of 'public' knowledge (rather than keeping as a trade secret) and thus advance technology. If developers do not look at patents, then in no way does this help to advance the state of the art, rather it hinders it.
Posted Apr 20, 2006 17:23 UTC (Thu)
by man_ls (guest, #15091)
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That is only one reason they are bad, but it's a good reason. If only for this they should not exist.
Bad, bad patents