Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
by lewiscollard on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:06AM
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> Please remember that patents were invented as a way to fight trade secrets.
Does anything in the early history of patents backs the assertion that they were invented for that reason?
"Patents might be useful as a way to fight trade secrets", is not the same thing, and could even be true enough; I think "patents were invented because..." might be a back-port of more recent thinking on to a history that does not support it.
Does anything in the early history of patents backs the assertion that they were invented for that reason?
"Patents might be useful as a way to fight trade secrets", is not the same thing, and could even be true enough; I think "patents were invented because..." might be a back-port of more recent thinking on to a history that does not support it.