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Too Many Patents as Bad as Too Few

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-the-word-out dept.

NonSoftAntiCurve writes "Forbes.com has an interesting article about how too many patents are as bad as too few when it comes to incentives for innovation. 'The tension between the patent as a way to stimulate invention and the patent as a weapon against legitimate competition is inherent in the system.' There is a scary example of how this plays out in practice."

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  1. Re:Two words by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Bullshit. This argument has been hacked to death hundreds of times. Several of them on /. itself! +3 Insiteful. I don't think so.