Re: Yes.

Re: Yes.

Posted Nov 6, 2009 5:15 UTC (Fri) by nevyn (subscriber, #33129)
In reply to: Yes. by gbutler69
Parent article: Courgette meets a dangerous (Red) Bend

Obvious to me would be at least 30% - 50% of those polled skilled in the art would come up with the idea and method in a reasonable amount of time.

Well, personally, I would disagree ... if 3-4% of a random sample in an "art" would come up with the idea, when asked to solve a problem, then I fail to see why 1 person/entity should be able to stop upto 9 million people from using it (assuming every .us person could be taught said "art", that'd be 9 million).

Patents aren't supposed to be a lottery, they are supposed to solve the problem of sharing when only a very small number of people would ever be able to solve a problem. Thus it's worth giving you a monopoly as an incentive to share. When you are anywhere close to 1%, you are saying at least 1 person in any public company could find the solution ... that's just not rare, IMO.

Of course atm. patents seem more like if less than 99% of a random sample would come up with it, then it's patentable. So it's all academic.

Honestly, we all must learn to take more control over the laws of our society instead of just bitching about them. If you can convince enough people you are right, you can win.

Do you have any examples of that working?

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