Re: Alternative to Invention Patents

From: Rue The Day (ruetheday_at_outgun.com)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: 17 Jun 2004 05:51:12 -0700

"Matt Timmermans" <mt0000@sympatico.nospam-remove.ca> wrote in message news:<eM6Ac.23984$nY.905664@news20.bellglobal.com>...
> "Mark Monson" <m_monson@ztech.com> wrote in message
> news:nm2Ac.934$nA1.898@bignews3.bellsouth.net...
> > [...] An inventor
> > would agree to forego patent protection and submit his idea to the office
> of
> > invention awards. An examiner would check to see if the idea was new and
> useful
> > and the government would award a cash prize to the inventor if his
> invention is
> > found to be novel and useful. The invention would then pass immediately
> to the
> > public domain where anybody could use it.
>
> I don't think an inventor would be content to live or die by the whim of an
> examiner. Let the patent be granted, and if the government wants the
> invention to be in the public domain, let it buy the patent out.

Why should the government have to buy the patent out? The patent is
an artificial construct created by the government in the first place.

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