fatslob-:O said:
The market will be responsible for them getting better ideas to beat the big companies ... A patentless system makes it even easier for other businesses to enter a specific segment of a market ... It is the smaller businesses that would benefit more from a patentless system when the bigger companies doing free R&D for them and that they often have the better ideas than what the small companies could ever hope to make ... |
If Google and Small Company #A has acces to the same tech and ideas, one of those two companies are gonna crush the other like an ant. I'll give you a hint, it's not Small Company #A.
Besides, what you describe is exactly the less innovative market I described. Startups would do nothing but siphon off the R&D of big companies, and they wouldn't dare to try an innovate, because the big boys could use their idea and crush them. With patents, both the big and the small players have to do their best to innovate continuously, aka more good ideas and more innovation which is better for the consumer.
