Re:Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property
by vkou on Thursday May 06, 2021 @02:42PM
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> What do you make of the move corporations are making away from the use of patents, towards the use of a hybrid ‘trade secret + patent‘ sandwich? Is there a scenario where it does not stifle innovation?
I take that it's not happening to the extent claimed, and that those claims are largely self-serving propaganda used as justification for a legal land-grab.
Of course patent owners are going to argue that their patents should be valid for fifty thousand years, with the figleaf that it protects 'innovation'. What else would they say? That they'd like IP law tilted in their favour because it would make them more money?
Re:Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property
by beckman466 on Saturday May 08, 2021 @07:05AM
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> I take that it's not happening to the extent claimed, and that those claims are largely self-serving propaganda used as justification for a legal land-grab.
Really? What you are basing this off of?
What do you make of the move corporations are making away from the use of patents, towards the use of a hybrid ‘trade secret + patent‘ sandwich? Is there a scenario where it does not stifle innovation?
I’m asking because I personally don’t see any. As you said these systems are artificial constructs, and at the worst this taking away as trade secrets is theft on an enormous scale.
The internet allows mass collaboration, and I believe we are still in the very early stages of developing this infrastructure.
Elaboration on what exactly I mean by ‘patent + trade secret’ sandwich here: https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2019/02/19/dont-fooled-patent-pur...