You'd rather have mercury poisoning than a warmer planet?
"Mercury damages the central nervous system, endocrine system, kidneys, and other organs, and adversely affects the mouth, gums, and teeth. Exposure over long periods of time or heavy exposure to mercury vapor can result in brain damage and ultimately death. Mercury and its compounds are particularly toxic to fetuses and infants. Women who have been exposed to mercury in pregnancy have sometimes given birth to children with serious birth defects" (Wikipedia.org)
Honestly, I hope your post is a joke. At least humans can adapt to a warmer planet. Your comment is insane.
I think the word you are looking for is competition.
As far as I'm concerned patents help innovate and create a new product, but limit the amount of people who can use the idea/process/concept. Not having a patent system at all would decrease the amount of innovation. Think about it, who would want to spend X million dollars on R&D if someone can just rip off the whole entire process from the original creator.
However, coming up with a system that still gives the original inventor some incentive to innovate (probably some monetary compensation from those who use it) as well as letting other companies/entities/people use the "patent" could spur much more competition.
And I think we can all agree that more competition is a good thing for consumers and bad thing for producers.
And thus, businesses will not abandon the patent system.
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You'd rather have mercury poisoning than a warmer planet?
"Mercury damages the central nervous system, endocrine system, kidneys, and other organs, and adversely affects the mouth, gums, and teeth. Exposure over long periods of time or heavy exposure to mercury vapor can result in brain damage and ultimately death. Mercury and its compounds are particularly toxic to fetuses and infants. Women who have been exposed to mercury in pregnancy have sometimes given birth to children with serious birth defects" (Wikipedia.org)
Honestly, I hope your post is a joke. At least humans can adapt to a warmer planet. Your comment is insane.
Patents hinder innovation?
I think the word you are looking for is competition.
As far as I'm concerned patents help innovate and create a new product, but limit the amount of people who can use the idea/process/concept. Not having a patent system at all would decrease the amount of innovation. Think about it, who would want to spend X million dollars on R&D if someone can just rip off the whole entire process from the original creator.
However, coming up with a system that still gives the original inventor some incentive to innovate (probably some monetary compensation from those who use it) as well as letting other companies/entities/people use the "patent" could spur much more competition.
And I think we can all agree that more competition is a good thing for consumers and bad thing for producers.
And thus, businesses will not abandon the patent system.