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| Authored by: RPN on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 02:45 PM EST |
I can remember a long time ago when the USPTO was shifted away from government
funding towards paying its own way I and many others saw this as a real problem
in this specific field. That's not to say moving some things to 'arm's length'
from government is a bad thing because it definitely isn't. This just was
clearly a case of the 'wrong incentive' coming into play for this particular
task/function.
Everything that has happened since only reinforces the view I had then and I do
think you are right. This is driven far to much by the desire to gain revenue.
Far to little by doing the job right for the national/social good. There is no
consideration of the consequences and no impact of them on the USPTO really. But
the costs are huge in additional litigation costs for businesses and therefore
extra cost to us their consumers. This is perhaps something that needs to be
researched and used as an argument more. I don't know what the full cost of
software patents is but I would guess above $10 billion a year in the US just in
litigation costs, that's around $30 dollars on average per citizen in product
prices inflated by that cost. Or you can see it as $10 billion not invested in
R&D to keep the US competitive in the industry. Etc.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 08 2013 @ 06:20 AM EST |
Then everyone stops making stuff cause your asking for cash
they dont want to pay and then you get zero or less.
You have years to continue squeezing and people like
myself just move on to other stuff or we create locally and
never distribute and violate all your laws and rules and don't care. Then you
have your justice system get pounded
wiht lawsuits, jail times and screwed lives caus eyou had an
idea years back and i saw a newer way to use it that is now
useful...
Well your just trying to control me and im not biting.
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