This was probably the most accurate response that could explain exactly how and why the patent process is completely f*cked up! If anything would help, removing patents completely would encourage more innovation than any other modification to the existing patent system.
Why would any individual reasonably try to invent something, without manditory research into checking if a patent on the invention/idea already exists (and it probably does), and thus discouraging further innovation. Talk about killing an economy and future technology movements. Most important innovations in the past 200 years have not been made by large corporations, think tanks, and the like, but by innovative individuals taking an idea and making it reality!
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This was probably the most accurate response that could explain exactly how and why the patent process is completely f*cked up! If anything would help, removing patents completely would encourage more innovation than any other modification to the existing patent system. Why would any individual reasonably try to invent something, without manditory research into checking if a patent on the invention/idea already exists (and it probably does), and thus discouraging further innovation. Talk about killing an economy and future technology movements. Most important innovations in the past 200 years have not been made by large corporations, think tanks, and the like, but by innovative individuals taking an idea and making it reality!
There should be a patent on this thread.