Trolls Are Real
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Trolls Are Real
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#2The patent system was broken from the start. The incentives are all wrong, as USPTO officers get paid more, the more patents they approve. It's like paying fishermen for the fish they didn't catch.
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#3Wtf
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#5Of course lobbyists are behind the weakening of patent laws. Something really has to be done about the lobbying problem we have in this country.
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#6Patent trolls would be OK if they couldn’t go after small companies. What’s worse is they prioritize small companies. In fact, buying patents and then suing makes IP from fundamentally valuable. I am generally OK with that, but not when it discourages startup ecosystems which are a huge source of real innovation.
What I’d love to see would be the democrat party to refocus their policies to shift towards small business against large corporations. Re-invent the American Dream. This could tie in well with the green new deal. Rather than talk about jobs, talk about the tens of thousands of small businesses.
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#7The patent system was broken from the start. The incentives are all wrong, as USPTO officers get paid more, the more patents they approve. It's like paying fishermen for the fish they didn't catch.
> paying fishermen for the fish they didn't catch.
TBH that doesn't sound like an awful bad idea.
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#8Patents are meant to protect you from bigger companies muscling you out. They have however found a loophole by acquiring as many patents as possible hoping that will scare you. That strategy however doesnt help against trolls. So they lobby to weaken the patent system to make it easier to steal ideas from small startups.
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#9The patent system was broken from the start. The incentives are all wrong, as USPTO officers get paid more, the more patents they approve. It's like paying fishermen for the fish they didn't catch.
> paying fishermen for the fish they didn't catch. TBH that doesn't sound like an awful bad idea.
What do you mean? Why?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> paying fishermen for the fish they didn't catch. TBH that doesn't sound like an awful bad idea.
What do you mean? Why?
The parent might be refering to the overfishing that happens in many parts of the world. That leads to destruction of the local ecosystem, and also the future livelihoods of the fishermen themselves.
The US government already does something similar for corn. Farmers are paid to not plant it to control market price.