Re: Alternative to Invention Patents

From: Rue The Day (ruetheday_at_outgun.com)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: 18 Jun 2004 11:17:54 -0700

"Matt Timmermans" <mt0000@sympatico.nospam-remove.ca> wrote in message news:<O5tAc.36701$nY.1155031@news20.bellglobal.com>...
> "Rue The Day" <ruetheday@outgun.com> wrote in message
> news:a44a8c58.0406170451.4c4f2b66@posting.google.com...
> > Why should the government have to buy the patent out?
>
> To preserve inventors' trust in the patent system, upon which the utility of
> that system depends.

Nonsense. People invented things long before the existence of patents
and people continue to invent things in areas that are not patentable.

> > The patent is
> > an artificial construct created by the government in the first place.
>
> Yes, and the government does that to create a sufficiently attractive
> alternative to secrecy -- a worthy goal, IMO.

In many ways, I find a system where inventors keep things secret
preferable to a system where the government enforces an artificial
patent monopoly. That puts the burden of protecting the invention on
the inventor rather than on the consumer and the taxpayer.

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