NY Times Comes Out Against The Broken Patent System
from the good-to-see dept
Following the recent NY Times article on how tax strategies are getting patented, the paper has come out with an opinion piece about how our patent system is broken and rewarding exactly the opposite behavior that it was intended to encourage: "Patents are supposed to encourage innovation, rewarding the individual for the greater good of society. But excessive or overly broad patents can slow business activity to the pace of cold molasses." This isn't anything new to plenty of folks, of course. However, it is good to see a publication like the NY Times make the point as well.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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patenting legal defenses
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new patent
seriously.. glad to see mainstream news publications taking notice.
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Refer to my recent patent application "A Methodological Process By Which Limited Monopolies for the Implementation of Invented Processes May Be Examined, Adjudicated, Granted and Protected."
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IP, progress, choose one.
Anybody of moderate intelligence who makes a dispassionate and honest analysis of intellectual property will arrive at the conclusion that it impedes progress.
Besides, there are no inventions, only discoveries. Nobody who believes in God or creationism can consistently assert the case for intellectual property. But mere logical impossibility has never stood in the way of these greedy retards before.
So, as a freethinking athiest, or a religious conservative you must reject intellectual property as a concept. It is unique in being anti-capitalist, anti-socialist and spanning all creeds and religions as an abhorent notion.
The only supporters of the idea are a disproportionately vocal minority who have a vested interest in keeping intellectual property, and those who do not understand it.
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Re: chewbacca defense strategy
Why would a wookie living on Endor have anything patentable about it.
Therfore the chewbacca defense strategy is non-obvious.
Therfore the chewbacca defense strategy is Patentable.
QED
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