Time for patent and trademark law to be thrown out and redesigned. Seems that now it’s mainly used to create moats for entrenched businesses to keep profits high and competitors out.
It’s not. Just because a patent holder accuses someone of infringement doesn’t make it so. Plenty of cases where a patent holder even had their patent invalidated due to the other party successfully arguing the patent was invalid in a lawsuit started by the patent holder.
keep […] competitors out.
That’s the whole point of a patent, the exclusive right to prevent others from commercially exploiting the invention claimed in the patent for a limited time.
Time for patent and trademark law to be thrown out and redesigned. Seems that now it’s mainly used to create moats for entrenched businesses to keep profits high and competitors out.
Yeah man. You’re right. What did it used to be for before it became a way to protect profits?
Protect the little guy from some big company stealing his invention and cutting him out
I’m oddly okay with the current trademark law, but fuck the copyright system
It’s not. Just because a patent holder accuses someone of infringement doesn’t make it so. Plenty of cases where a patent holder even had their patent invalidated due to the other party successfully arguing the patent was invalid in a lawsuit started by the patent holder.
That’s the whole point of a patent, the exclusive right to prevent others from commercially exploiting the invention claimed in the patent for a limited time.
What’s wrong with trademark law?
Agreed on patent law. It was just never designed for rapid technology evolution we’ve seen for the last 50+ years.
Nothing wrong until you get sued by a megacorp because they think you are infringing. Plus a host of other reasons
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/2013/apr/29/trademarks-good-bad-ugly
patent, trademark, copywrite, all of it
the actual patent/trademark/whatever is less important than the ability to pay for a good lawyer to defend it - or the ability to argue yourself
everything takes “inspiration” from something else and an original idea is incredibly rare - or more realistically, nonexistent
déjà vu, déjà entendu, déjà dit, déjà pensé, déjà ressenti
theres a lot more than patent/trademark law that needs redesigned