| thismeintiel said: Innovation lost? Man, how did we ever come from room sized computers in the 50's to pocket sized ones just 55-60 years later. Damn those patents. Innovation has barely happened since we put them into place. Oh wait, they actually helped excellerate it. Why? Because people can make money off of their own inventions, making them worthwhile to invest in in the first place. Otherwise people wouldn't want to innovate, cause other companies could just rip them off and they see nothing from it. And it doesn't cost billions to aquire a patent. It may cost millions to buy out a smaller company who owns the patent, but to get the initial patent is not billions. And I already said we need to deal with trolls, so don't ignore that. Of course, you would have MUCH worse than trolls if we got rid of the patent system. You would have straight up thieves. Now, we have bigger companies having to at least buy out smaller ones for millions to aquire their tech, which actually pays the ones who came up with the invention/innovation. Without patents, ANYONE would be able to steal others' ideas. This means big companies would just take smaller companies ideas, meaning they get nothing. Your world just benefits larger companies, while killing smaller ones. |
You may get innovation from the monopolies but not those from other industries trying to pitch in so that right there is lost innovation ...
If anything it's the market that accelerates innovation. You have to impress the customers with your products and services, not your portfolio of ideas ...
Companies taking ideas from each other is normal, what's not normal is giving big corporations an advantage ...
One patent alone can't cost an upwards of a billion but once you start actively seeking out tons of reccommended and necessary patents in order to create a competitive product in a specific industry with tons of revenue then the costs can start spiralling up and it could cost more than a billion dollars! ALL that money and time wasted just to get on equal footing when you could've just spent it in R&D instead and innovated even more ...
I didn't ignore the patent trolls if anything abolishing a patent system would ultimately put an end to it ...
There is no such thing as trolls in business, you do whatever you can to get an advantage and it's ALWAYS been like that. It's like what Picasso says and what Steve Jobs says too, "good artists copy but great artists steal". How else could've Apple as a business succeed ? They simply STEAL ...
The inventor may get money but you still end up with a monopoly so that contradicts your notion that a patentless system is helping/killing bigger/smaller company respectively. When you end up buying every small company out there you only get monpolies and next to no small companies anymore ...
A patentless world would mean big corporations getting the short end of the stick. Free R&D from big companies, keeping big companies on their toes, small companies been able to put out competitve products or services, more easily able to enter an industry, and it's harder to bankrupt small companies in general. Under a patentless system the only ones that have odds stacked against them are big companies or leeches plus it's not a big loss to small businesses not been able to practice an exclusive idea anymore when they can get better ones from whatever the big ones are cooking up ...
