It is a vast misuse of resources and failing of the system if every single patent is almost automatically given, and then requires expensive and time-consuming litigation to challenge or verify. If this is the case, why bother with a patent office? Just let people make claims and let the courts sort it out... which would be insane. So, if you are going to have a patent office, let it have a) adequate staffing and resource levels, and b) access to appropriate expertise to determine actual likely validity of patents, and c) no inherent incentive (financial or political) to specifically grant rather than deny patents (should be neutral).
Piano players and sheet music were the 'original' music piracy a century+ ago. And even before then some people could write scores down, or play from memory... "plus ca change"...
Yes, because God/Krishna/Allah/Yahweh/FSM forbid that you actually want to benefit from 'socialised' benefits such as roads, infrastructure, food & air standards, healthcare, social security net, edumacation, etc...
Also, I've never understood how people who scream "Bogeyman!" at the federal government will happily give the same powers, and more, to the state & city governments...
You've obviously never read 'Dilbert. I suspect there's plenty of examples there of marketing 'inventing' product... and how else would you explain vapourware.
Marketing is a kind of product itself. An actual deliverable is a totally different beast.
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Although also depressing that I remember so many of these... and the people they refer to.
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Also, I've never understood how people who scream "Bogeyman!" at the federal government will happily give the same powers, and more, to the state & city governments...
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Marketing is a kind of product itself. An actual deliverable is a totally different beast.
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