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A comment on How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and 1956 (2017) [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs ... by bjornsing on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:20AM (#27997584)
By parent I’m referring to the comment you get to if you press the “parent” link on the comment I replied to.

To me it seems like

> If patents do exactly what they are intended to do, they damage periods of rapid, cheap progress.

is very much in line with the wording of the constitution. I guess in order to see that you have to also believe that monopolies hurt rapid, cheap progress. I think most reasonable people do.

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Re:How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs ... by sokoloff on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:40AM (#27997821)
Right. The question was parent link on your comment or parent link on parent link of your comment.

The counter argument is “if you can’t make a return on investment in innovation, you tend to get less investment in innovation”. Whether that return comes from monopoly in corporate behavior or legal protection from patents, somehow you want to allow some (but limited) profit to be made from investments in R&D.

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