House Passes Patent Reform Amid Flurry Of Tech Patent Suits

The whole of the Intellectual Property field is negative, self-defeating, and tends to stifle innovation (not advance it). All Patents, Copyrights, and similar Protections should be UNENFORCEABLE at law. They should be for moral, prestige, and historical purposes only.

Perhaps then we'll get somewhere.

Signed by the Grand Inquistor.

People used to protect tech knowledge from time and ages. Look at how some people made food and special material in time and also medicine that were all hidden secrets. Patent process brought the technology to be somewhat open and person like Edison could sell the technology to finance his research.

I agree that patenting only to force poor country to suffer is not all that good thing. There is no exceptions and this disparity between have and have not will always widen until others learn to over come in centuries.

We have United nations and it looks like they have not achieved much other than caring for the funding agencies. They work like a private body of few who make the system run.

Other people should also learn to contribute to civilization and show up their mental strength else going to be treated like monkeys and no will will care. All countries are free to accept or not to accept patent in their country as patent process is for each country and not for entire world. Copyright is one's art so all need to acknowledge it.

The carrot and the stick. Big money has lobbied our greedy politicians into a bias patent system. Look for whom the changes favor and you will find the money source.

We have the best system in the world, that doesn't say much.

ouch, some one kicked out my soap box.

Brad

The patent system is critical to the invention and innovations that I have produced over my time. With out the patent system, I could not get the money needed to bring products that you all use daily to market.

Such as opto couplers, GaN chips, opto encapsulates, etc. It is patents that allow for invention to come to market in such a way that the inventor (generally companies) to gather a return on the cost of that invention.

Simple as that, with out patent system, no money to investigate, no money to innovate, no work for scientists and engineers, lots of starving people in the developed world.

The patent system only works for big companies. The costs of enforcing patents are too high for individuals or small companies. Patents do promote (through the profits they promise) invention and innovation but the playing field is not even.