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there are... dozens? Are you seriously defending the billions that the patent system costs our economic system with the idea that it protects "dozens" of indiv
by alanX 15y ago
there are... dozens?
Are you seriously defending the billions that the patent system costs our economic system with the idea that it protects "dozens" of individuals and small businesses?
Seriously, if you stack up the number of patent lawsuits and license fees extorted by IBM, TI, Microsoft, and others against small tech firms, the damage to small business by the patent system is overwhelmingly larger than the benefit some small businesses might gain from it.
- jamesaguilar 15y agoHis point is merely that the logic does not evenly apply to patent trolls and small inventors. He is saying nothing about the overall benefits of the patent system.
- Helianthus 15y agoThe point is not that the patent system is wholly sane, but that it is made somewhat more sane by a careful imposition of legal costs that by and large affect only patent trolls.