Film: "Patent absurdity"

Posted Apr 19, 2010 8:31 UTC (Mon) by mjthayer (guest, #39183)
In reply to: Film: "Patent absurdity" by dlang
Parent article: Film: "Patent absurdity"

>so you think the only advantage anyone should get for a new invention is whatever head start they can get on the competition, and other than that everyone should be able to freely use any ideas that they can get their hands on

Are you arguing in favour of rewarding the individual (or company) or because of the benefit to society? If the second, is there any reasonable proof, not just based on assumptions and logic, that patents do bring the benefit they are supposed to? You know the thing about premature optimisation :)

Film: "Patent absurdity"

Posted Apr 20, 2010 5:17 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

no, unfortunantly it's hard to prove if the advances in technology are due to patent law, general society, political policy, or everything combined.

like most things in history we don't get a chance to do controlled experiments.