Summary: Food for thought
If patents are property, what ever happened to property tax?
If patents are property, how come no resources are needed to physically put them together?
If patents are property, how come this 'property' can be copied so easily?
If patents are property and have always been around, how come they can be suddenly privatised?
If patents are property, how come they don't last forever?
If patents are property, why isn't ownership being passed (reassigned) from father to son (or mother to daughter)?
If patents are property, what will we have to show our kids except pieces of paper?
If patents are really property, why do they persist in existence even when we smash them?
If patents are property, what are the constituent ingredients?
If patents are property, why do they take so little space?
If patents are property, how come we need to hire a lawyer to remind ourselves of their existence?
If patents are property, do we really need to rely on a courtroom to simply take them back?
If patents are property, why can't we give them to a loved one as a gift?
If patents are property, why won't the pawn shop accept them?
If patents are property, why can't their abundance save an economy?
If patents are property, then what the heck is property anyway?
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Comments
Michael
2011-11-25 20:01:12
FUD: What? Resources *are* needed to put different IP protected concepts into one product. How could you not realize this?
FUD: Welcome to modern technology where you can copy software, music, books, etc. Why is that a baffling concept to you?
FUD: Here you confuse the idea of IP with specific instances of IP.
FUD: Do you want to extend IP rights into perpetuity? That seems absurd and completely counter to your goals!
FUD: IP ownership is transferred on death.
FUD: The products that came from the IP!
FUD: How do you "smash" IP? That does not even make sense.
On and on and on... your ignorance on this issue knows no bounds.
High Plains Thumper
2011-11-25 20:38:15
No wonder why there are very few companies developing software, relatively speaking in comparison to 30 years ago.
Michael
2011-11-26 06:47:52
FUD: Only people with the right type of education can "innovate". Absurd.
FUD: There are far more groups making software now than there was in the early 1980s. Far, far more.