Re:Senate’s Patent Act is a Big Win for Startups
by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @09:21PM
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Its entirely to encourage innovation. A commerce thing. If you improve a pump, and try to sell it, and BigPumpsCo instantly copies the better design, then what motivation to make better pumps?
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Re:Senate’s Patent Act is a Big Win for Startups
by jgmmo on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @10:26PM
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The term for a patent is 20 years, according to my limited understanding. That's an enormous amount of time to be able to legally have a monopoly on something like 'playing video on the internet', 'in-app purchasing', etc.
Do you think when a company owns a process like that, for 20 years, that it improves innovation?