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| Authored by: Ian Al on Thursday, October 11 2012 @ 10:40 AM EDT |
How about someone writing a Groklaw post describing, in detail, a
historical
case in which a patent clearly helped an inventor to bring something
to market,
where the patent protected him while he provided value to society,
and where the
patent-holder's mononopoly clearly did not impede the development
and deployment
of his invention while it was in
force.
Trevor_Baylis is a lone inventor who patented his wind-up
radio to protect it and made it available to spread information about aids in
Africa. Africans who were poor or lived in outlying districts could not get the
batteries to keep their radios working.
There are loads of updated
wind-up radios, torches and the like available for sale. However, they use
rechargeable batteries. The Baylis invention never needs batteries, at
all.
I think the Baylis example meets the terms of the challenge. I
happen to disagree with his view that the lone inventor is protected by patents.
However, he got the radios out to Africa at an affordable price for the people
who needed it.
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Wind up radio - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 11 2012 @ 01:26 PM EDT
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