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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 07:08 AM EDT |
Wouldn't have stopped Oracle vs Google though, and banning successors in
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| Authored by: Winter on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 07:09 AM EDT |
How about that patents and copyrights allow for extractable wealth from
monopolies?
I see a strong believe in USA businesses that (international) competition is bad
for the bottom line. Law-makers seem to agree. They seem support monopoly rents
wherever they can.
If you compare the policies to foster competition in the markets between the USA
and the EU, that is a difference as between night and day.
The most obvious targets for extraction of money are foreign companies. Their
"IP" get little to no protection.
US companies regularly obtain patents on foreign products and copyrights of
foreign companies are rarely enforced. There are many cases where foreign
companies had to pay patent license costs for their own inventions.
The Basmati rice and Neem tree patents are textbook examples.
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| Authored by: dio gratia on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 12:21 AM EDT |
The patent act of 1793 made it clear that patent rights were assignable. Didn't
the most recently passed patent act include provision for a company with
interest in an invention (a work for hire) to apply without the inventor?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 03:17 PM EDT |
interesting detail you observed. The US is one of the few (perhaps the
only?) countries where the applicant must be the actual inventor. It must
come from this statute. Of course, the patent is
generally then assigned to the
company (employment contracts generally
require this). Elsewhere, the company
could be the applicant.
As someone else already said, assignment of patents
is explicitly
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