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]]> By: Against Patents - The Generalist http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-53339 Against Patents - The Generalist Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:17:58 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/#comment-53339 [...] work of one man alone – they proceed in stages. For those in need of an empirical example, the case of the steam engine makes evident the hindrances to innovation caused by patents.[4] It’s important to note, [...] [...] work of one man alone – they proceed in stages. For those in need of an empirical example, the case of the steam engine makes evident the hindrances to innovation caused by patents.[4] It’s important to note, [...]

]]> By: Cientifica’s white paper on nanotechnology in drug delivery (NDD) « FrogHeart http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-52291 Cientifica’s white paper on nanotechnology in drug delivery (NDD) « FrogHeart Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:45:25 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/#comment-52291 [...] are a problematic area as there are arguments that current patent regimes are stifling innovation (Do Patents Encourage or Hinder Innovation? The Case of the Steam Engine; Patent Law Is Highly Contro...) while others suggest longer patent periods are needed (Drug Patents Stifling Innovation by [...] [...] are a problematic area as there are arguments that current patent regimes are stifling innovation (Do Patents Encourage or Hinder Innovation? The Case of the Steam Engine; Patent Law Is Highly Contro…) while others suggest longer patent periods are needed (Drug Patents Stifling Innovation by [...]

]]> By: The Electric Leaf’s True Believers Won’t Leave Well Enough Alone | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-47449 The Electric Leaf’s True Believers Won’t Leave Well Enough Alone | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:07:59 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/#comment-47449 [...] “Do Patents Encourage or Hinder Innovation? The Case of the Steam Engine” by Michele Boldrin, David K. Levine, and Alessandro Nuvolari [...] [...] “Do Patents Encourage or Hinder Innovation? The Case of the Steam Engine” by Michele Boldrin, David K. Levine, and Alessandro Nuvolari [...]

]]> By: Martin Treadgold http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-47009 Martin Treadgold Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:55:13 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/#comment-47009 The idea of a patent is sound, it protects the inventor's IP, but recently we are seeing a rise in patent trading where a company can buy an entire patent solely on the basis that they can sue a rival company for profit, or put a rival company out of business. Any form of Patent Trading should be made illegal, especially the 'current owners' of the patent are not the original inventors. This kind of patent use really hinders progress, especially in the consumer electronics industry where the whole business of suing, counter suing, is just nasty and childish, and lawmakers should be able to revoke the ownership of a patent if it is used in this way. References to Google vs Apple debacle where google buys up patents from IBM to counter Apple suing Google. It has to stop, its unethical. The idea of a patent is sound, it protects the inventor’s IP, but recently we are seeing a rise in patent trading where a company can buy an entire patent solely on the basis that they can sue a rival company for profit, or put a rival company out of business.

Any form of Patent Trading should be made illegal, especially the ‘current owners’ of the patent are not the original inventors. This kind of patent use really hinders progress, especially in the consumer electronics industry where the whole business of suing, counter suing, is just nasty and childish, and lawmakers should be able to revoke the ownership of a patent if it is used in this way.

References to Google vs Apple debacle where google buys up patents from IBM to counter Apple suing Google.

It has to stop, its unethical.

]]> By: Daniel Knight http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-46261 Daniel Knight Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:50:01 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/#comment-46261 @Robert A. Patterson http://eternian.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/what-if-patent-law-had-never-been-invented/ You should have used a search engine first to see if what you said was valid. (that first comment was meant for Robert) @Robert A. Patterson

http://eternian.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/what-if-patent-law-had-never-been-invented/

You should have used a search engine first to see if what you said was valid.

(that first comment was meant for Robert)

]]> By: Daniel Knight http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-46260 Daniel Knight Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:47:48 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/#comment-46260 http://eternian.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/what-if-patent-law-had-never-been-invented/ You should have used a search engine first to see if what you said was valid. http://eternian.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/what-if-patent-law-had-never-been-invented/

You should have used a search engine first to see if what you said was valid.

]]> By: Do Patents Encourage or Hinder Innovation? The Case of the Steam Engine | The Freeman | Upstarta.biz http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-46133 Do Patents Encourage or Hinder Innovation? The Case of the Steam Engine | The Freeman | Upstarta.biz Tue, 06 Sep 2011 04:04:50 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/#comment-46133 [...] http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-s... [...] [...] http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-s... [...]

]]> By: tragedy of the patents « thoughts of a slowpoke http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-46108 tragedy of the patents « thoughts of a slowpoke Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:54:51 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/#comment-46108 [...] First of all, when discussing patents, one has to look at history a bit. Proponents of the patent system often like to argue that patents are what enabled the industrial revolution, since they gave incentive to Watt to invent the steam engine. This argument, however, completely ignores the fact that the subsequent monopoly on that invention essentially brought innovation on the steam engine to a halt for the next 31 years. Even worse, Watt himself was hindered by other patents from improving the steam engine, as competitors patented solutions to some problems, for example the crank and flywheel to deliver a steady rotary motion, which was patented by James Pickard. A great summary of this whole mess can be found here. [...] [...] First of all, when discussing patents, one has to look at history a bit. Proponents of the patent system often like to argue that patents are what enabled the industrial revolution, since they gave incentive to Watt to invent the steam engine. This argument, however, completely ignores the fact that the subsequent monopoly on that invention essentially brought innovation on the steam engine to a halt for the next 31 years. Even worse, Watt himself was hindered by other patents from improving the steam engine, as competitors patented solutions to some problems, for example the crank and flywheel to deliver a steady rotary motion, which was patented by James Pickard. A great summary of this whole mess can be found here. [...]

]]> By: Juan http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-45156 Juan Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:59:05 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/#comment-45156 Like someone writed before the problem is what is patentable and what is not. Every year thousands of pattetns are granted but how many of them are true innovations?. If you search patents in internet you will find many stupid pattents that anyone with common sense could have invented. Where is the innovation there? the problem are not the patents, the problem is the use of them by some companies to avoid competence, and without competence there is not free market. Someone told before about cancer cure(I have family and friends that died). I can't believe this is true because if it is the big phamaceutic companies and the people working in then are killers no mather their right to earn money, that is a genocide. I want to say that some inventions even real innovations shoudnt be patentable because the major humanity benefice. And if a company doesn't invest at least let others to do it. Like someone writed before the problem is what is patentable and what is not. Every year thousands of pattetns are granted but how many of them are true innovations?. If you search patents in internet you will find many stupid pattents that anyone with common sense could have invented. Where is the innovation there? the problem are not the patents, the problem is the use of them by some companies to avoid competence, and without competence there is not free market.

Someone told before about cancer cure(I have family and friends that died). I can’t believe this is true because if it is the big phamaceutic companies and the people working in then are killers no mather their right to earn money, that is a genocide. I want to say that some inventions even real innovations shoudnt be patentable because the major humanity benefice. And if a company doesn’t invest at least let others to do it.

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