what you call straw man (2)
What do you mean encouraging ? It is
figure of speech.
It is about the pretention that heavy investment means "it
is
great,
therefore you owe us".
You may believe it is a straw man, but it is
not.
Um. Right. So are you seriously suggesting that people
expect to be
rewarded for carting sand into the desert? If not, it's a
"straw man" argument
- an attack on a position no-one ever took
up.
Just because you disagree with someone doesn't make it a
figure of
speech -
this particular figure of speech means offering a reward for
something that we
think is worthwhile. You know, encouraging it. The straw
man is that somehow
we should reward investment for the sake of
investment (one which you
continue). But no-one ever suggested that; we
should reward
innovation and
invention, which sometimes happens to require
heavy
investment.
what you call strawman (1)
lot of money and
or time is relative to the company size.
"Familiar with state of the art of the
field" ?
Company A has no way of knowing what their competitor B is
going to
patent.
Otherwise it would be obvious to knowledgables in the field.
(non-patentable)
Even if company A would have a clue about what company B
was
going to patent (and or vice versa) their race leads to
one winner and
one
loser.
Or should one become the self apointed loser and stop
wasting effort
?
Don't forget company A does not have to license to B.
Extra efforts have been
made to work around patents where
possible.
You may believe it is a strawman,
but it is not.
Lamentable, no doubt, but the whole point of
the patent
system is to encourage innovation. If someone's already
done it
then it's not very innovative, is it? And if you
invest significant amounts
(where significant is relative to
the size of your company) into research
without checking
whether someone else has already done that research before
then I think your investors will want to have a quiet word
about "fiduciary
duty".
Maybe you've never been involved in research and don't
know that
people are actually expected to check the state of
a field of research before
they leap into it. And they
expect to be able to do it, too. Otherwise we'd
have
millions of doctorate students all "discovering" the same
things over and
over. Funnily enough, they don't. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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