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I guess we all failed in this ball game | 211 comments | Create New Account
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I guess we all failed in this ball game
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 02 2013 @ 09:24 AM EDT

As the original poster said:

    It's unproven that if the potential financial windfall for patent licenses are not as good, innovators will stop innovating.
There are many innovators out there:
    Heavy profit is a motive to some - Pure business people come to mind, they hire those that actually do the innovating and some investors actually require patents before they'll put money into an endeavor
    Profit is a motive to some - I'd like to think most mom-n-pop businesses fall into this category where they want to "earn an honest dollar" - generate a reasonable profit on reasonable work effort
    Profit is not a motive to some - One can certainly claim P.J. was innovative in putting together Groklaw and she's certainly not operating it for profit.
As civilized people, we should be able to agree that there is a diverse set of people and while some may "pack up their investment dollars and go home without patents" others won't.

And lest anyone think all true inventors patent, I point to the Franklin Stove and Benjamin Franklin as an example.

RAS

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