From: Tim Bates (tbates@karri.bhs.mq.edu.au)
Date: Tue Dec 22 1998 - 18:57:12 MST
Samael said
samael said:
>Do you really want to live in a world where everyone spends their time
>waiting for someone else to do some research?
No, i just want to live in a world where if i do the research I am not
put in jail becuase someone else did it before me.
The clearest justification for patents has been R&D recovery where trade
secrets would not work. So, let's simply do that. Let's explicitly tie
patents to R&D costs and restrict them in time to 5 years or the time
taken to recover R&D costs, which ever is the lesser. Either that or have
no patents and require alternative producers in the R&D recovery period
to contribute pro-rata to the R&D debit.
Economically, patents of 20 years encourage people to make poor R&D
decisions.
how's that sound?
tim
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