Re: Where would we be without these important patents?


<royls@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Irrelevant. A losing lottery ticket isn't worth a thing, either.
That doesn't stop people from buying them. And buying those tickets
reduces the amount people have to invest in more useful things, just
as the huge rent seeker spending on worthless but patentable
technologies crowds out more useful and promising research on
unpatentable technologies.

I don't think your crowding out theory makes sense. There isn't a fixed
amount to be invested in R&D.The amount firms invest depends on what profits
they expect to make.If you made patentable technologies less profitable,
firms would invest less money in research.

Also, since patents have to be published and become public domain once they
expire,patents actually increase the amount of technical information in the
public domain, and thus increase the opportunities for research.


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