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How awesome would it be it we just could hit delete on the hole shity patent db.


Your horrible spelling aside, I wouldn't mind seeing the patent system suffer an irreversible data corruption, along with a fire destroying all hard copies.

A forced reset, as it were.


If IBM didn't think that it would be awarded patents for work like this, why would they bother to do the research in the first place?


Surely you don't think the only reason people do research and advance science is due to hope of compensation?


That might not be the only reason for people, for companies however it would be silly to spend money without hoping to get it back somehow.


You don't need patents to create and execute big ideas. As a company or anything else.

As I said, this is a dream (and a pretty silly one at that). I can still hope though


The alternative to patents is secrecy. I think the patent system was originally introduced because it was deemed superior to make ideas public, but limit their commercial usability.


Problem being that the patent system (much like the copyright system) is irrevocably hosed.


Yes, without patents nobody is ever gone invent anything again.




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