Re: Where would we be without these important patents?


"nospam" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Andy F. wrote:

I didn't use a post hoc fallacy. You raised the question of what happened
before there were patents. The fact is that before patents, technological
progress was very slow for centuries.A fact which destroys the argument
you were trying to make.

It will be interesting to compare the number of engineers we have today
with
the number of engineers they had before patents AND see how this match the
technological progress compared today and then.

As far as I know, people used to invent things.
Well, you may believe that the patent laws make inventions,
but I still believe that peoples do :-)


The ratio of patent filings to published scientific papers.

Which only proves that scientists write a lot of papers.Give your head a
shake.


Cool, so any work is worthless in your eyes until it is protected by a
patent. Are you a CEO of some kind? I mean, your attempts to think fail so
soundly that you can be only a business person :-)


No, that almost never happens, because the first producer has much
better information about the product, customer problems, etc.


It's quite common. For example, do you remember when Sinclair produced
the
world's first home computer?

I do. I played with it. And I see no connection betwen the patents and the
fact that the design become obsolete.

It's just one example refuting Roy's claim that innovators almost always
have an advantage in the market. Some of the 'copycats' who borrowed
Sinclair's idea ended up making more money out of it than he did.


Nonsense. Unless you patent something useful, the patent isn't worth a
thing.

One click checkout by amazon.com.
Push technology by ntp.

Just to enumerate 2 trivial patents which WON in court.

Both of those technologies are useful.


.

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