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MSM Noticing That Patent Gridlock Stunts Innovation
trichard tips a column on the editorial page at that most traditional of mainstream media, the Wall Street Journal, arguing the point (obvious to this community for a decade) that the US patent system costs more than the value it delivers. The columnist is L. Gordon Crovitz and here is an excerpt: "New drugs require great specificity to earn a patent, whereas patents are often granted to broad, thus vague, innovations in software, communications, and other technologies. Ironically, the aggregate value of these technology patents is then wiped out through litigation costs. Our patent system [is] a disincentive at a time when we expect software and other technology companies to be the growth engine of the economy. Imagine how much more productive our information-driven economy would be if the patent system lived up to the intention of the Founders, by encouraging progress instead of suppressing it."
Considering the first line of the summary says "mainstream media", I think this does in fact mean you are ultra-unhip.
I suggest you get in line right now for the new iPhone and stay there until your hair naturally spikes itself and you sprout a pair of Oakleys.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
I suggest you get in line right now for the new iPhone and stay there until your hair naturally spikes itself and you sprout a pair of Oakleys.
I'm holding out for the next iPhone, in the hopes that I'll also sprout a pair of Birkenstocks.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Tell me about it! My boss is all like, "Why did you write 100 lines of incomprehensible C code without a single comment explaining what's going on?" I'm glad I finally got some backup on this issue.
We always knew Comcast was corrupt, here's the proof: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1909890&cid=34545432
Orthopedists are poseurs?