Comments on: Are Patents A Driver of Innovation or Just a Tax?

By: Patent Baristas » Book Review Monday: Driving Innovation

Patent Baristas » Book Review Monday: Driving Innovation — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:34:24 +0000

[...] off a recent discussion about the role patents play in fostering innovation (see: Are Patents A Driver of Innovation or Just a Tax?), it is fortunate that I’ve had a chance to read Michael Gollin’s excellent book on how [...]

By: Lawrence B. Ebert

Lawrence B. Ebert — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:10:38 +0000

fyi:

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2009/03/convenience-of-not-remembering-history.html

By: Patente: Steuern auf Innovationen? | Artefakte der Zukunft | siebeneinhalb.de - Geistiges Eigentum, Kultur, Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Technik

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:50:15 +0000

[...] Pauschal lässt sich nicht sagen, ob der Gewerbliche Rechtsschutz Innovationen verhindert, schreibt Stephen Albainy-Jenei in seinem Blog. Sicherlich gäbe es Beispiele, die zweifelsfrei zeigten, dass in gewissen Bereichen [...]

By: Lawrence B. Ebert

Lawrence B. Ebert — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:23:59 +0000

Merely fyi:

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2009/02/remembering-urochester-and-cox-2-patent.html

By: Michael R. Thomas www.worldsonlyinventorofsignificancearguably.com

Michael R. Thomas www.worldsonlyinventorofsignificancearguably.com — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:50:19 +0000

Use it or loose it clauses are inovation retartive and promotional of inventor frauding. The act of conception must guarantee the monopoly for 20years or else the incentive to invent is destroyed.Corporations with shallow pockets control the money sources and want to pay nothing for inventions, and this will give them the opertunity to conspire to wait out the inventor to steal the invention for nothing.Refusal to deal legislation is whats needed.