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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 04:13 AM EDT |
In fact that concept demonstrates why it has nothing to do with theft: It is
NOT about preventing an idea from being "stolen" but about providing a
temporary monopoly on commercial exploitation *regardless* of how the
other party came by the idea.
If you were to consider not paying someone who made an invention for using
that invention, then patents themselves would in effect often be theft -
preventing payments to people who make the invention independently.
Furthermore that temporary monopoly is a *price* from the public to an
inventor intended to stimulate *publication* of descriptions of ideas that
would otherwise languish as trade secrets, in order for it to continue to
benefit the public once the monopoly expires. It is NOT an acknowledgment
that there's some sort of inherent right to get paid for your ideas.
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