Re: Where would we be without these important patents?

Andy F. wrote:

That would mean a lot of inventors would be out of a job.

From where you got this idea ? The scientists and engineers are employed to
design a product. The company will have the full right to use this designs.

However, if during this work a invention,innovation,genial idea pops up this
is the creation of the inventor and it must be his or her own property.
Assuming exclusive ownership of somebody else creation is just plain
looting.


If you have 3 different patents for each invention, won't that mean
there'll be 3 times as many patent lawyers?

There is a huge difference betwen:
- public domain
- patented methodology
- copyright

For example idea can be that omega-3 acids help the brain.
The patented methodology can be the extraction of a concentrate of omega-3
from fish oil.
The copytight can be the yellow/translucent gel pill containing 1200 mg of
omega-3 concentrate.

The idea should be public domain, so if you can obtain by petroleum
synthesis omega3 you are free to patent it.
The method and technology of extracting omega3 from fish is the pattented
methodology. It belong to inventor as his own IP.
The 1200 mg fishoil pill can be copyrighted by company, branded and sold.


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