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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 20 2013 @ 08:15 AM EDT |
I'll admit aurology was my own coinage - intended to be
"study of hearing," but now I look into it, it's a horrible
Latin-Greek confusion. "Psychoacoustics" seems to be how
people in the field refer to it.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 20 2013 @ 08:28 AM EDT |
Suppose you also invested a lot of money (and or
time) into similar
and came up
with a neat solution.
All to waiste because someone else holds a
patent.
Where is your reward ?
This is a straw man. If you're
investing lots of time
and money in research
then you should be familiar with
the state of the art of
that field. If
anything, it's a public good to
discourage that sort of
waste.
Also I wonder when something
really great has
been invented becasue
of a yummy
patent reward in sight, how
long it would have taken before
someone else would
have come up with it, just
out of scientific curiosity when
there would not have
been patents. (and maybe
cheaper because not having to
compete on a
non-natural
pace)
But it is a public good to have that research
completed
earlier - it makes the
benefit of the knowledge available to society
earlier. But
in either case, the
system is theoretically designed to reward
the scientist in
the lab or to
encourage the spending on research. It just
doesn't have
that effect any more.
And on the notion
"spending loads of money"
means "reward is in
place":
when I spend a lot of
money bringing sand to the desert, do
I get a reward
then
?
Another straw man. Why would we want to encourage that?
It's not meant to
be a built-in reward
for whatever effort you want to make,
but a reward for
innovation because there
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 20 2013 @ 11:40 AM EDT |
This appears to get lost a lot of the time, just because
you do work or pay
money it does not mean that it is
patentable material. As I recall (not my
area), there is some
dispute about the validity of the MP3 patent as it started
as
hardware but really is a software patent. In any case these
appear to be
expiring over the next few years.
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