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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:! TR0LL1NG 1S D3AD ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It might be true and it's a sign of a sick Slashdot. Nobody cares about the troll anymore because no one reads the articles or the comments.
    Nobody reads them because they are crap. I just come here to burp and leave a shit stain on the comments page and move on to more intellectualy stimulating reading.

  2. Re:As Voltaire once said... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, but Voltaire was also an idiot.

  3. Two words by pete-classic · · Score: 2, Troll

    loser pays.

    -Peter

  4. Yah, most lawyers are Jews by CrazyJim0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mod me down, but they embrace alot of evil Zionism, and disgust for non Jews.

    Make money, so my children are worth living on this planet and yours aren't.

    How can you not have some racist feelings against a race who defines the lines of racism theirself. They feel their race deserves the planet even at the cost of being total perverts with the "law".

    --
    God spoke to me