Comments on: Intelectual Property http://alexbrie.net/551/intelectual-property/ Crampeie dintr-o viata... ordinara Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:49:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Alex http://alexbrie.net/551/intelectual-property/#comment-871 Alex Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:23:43 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=551#comment-871 <p>As I said, IP are weapons, and the <em>behemoths</em> always have them in a crushing amount. There is no(and I emphasize <strong>NO</strong>) startup that doesn’t already infringe some existing patents. And startups will never have lawyers as good as corporations. </p> <p>The cause of all this resides in the fact that patents have nowadays got to cover common sense notions (single/double click, autocomplete, todolists, compression algorithms (see GIF), etc). </p> <p>Once upon a time, when algorithms, ideas and common sense were not patentable(but you could always keep the industry secret, if you wanted), the IP laws would have fulfilled the exact purpose you talk about: protecting innovation from IP theft. It is not the case nowadays, where science is <strong>prohibited</strong> from innovation exactly by these patents. </p> <p>I got to read the above mentioned Chomski ideas, it’s a great reading about geopolitics and what is really behind all this IP protection and open-trade buzz.</p> As I said, IP are weapons, and the behemoths always have them in a crushing amount. There is no(and I emphasize NO) startup that doesn’t already infringe some existing patents. And startups will never have lawyers as good as corporations.

The cause of all this resides in the fact that patents have nowadays got to cover common sense notions (single/double click, autocomplete, todolists, compression algorithms (see GIF), etc).

Once upon a time, when algorithms, ideas and common sense were not patentable(but you could always keep the industry secret, if you wanted), the IP laws would have fulfilled the exact purpose you talk about: protecting innovation from IP theft. It is not the case nowadays, where science is prohibited from innovation exactly by these patents.

I got to read the above mentioned Chomski ideas, it’s a great reading about geopolitics and what is really behind all this IP protection and open-trade buzz.

]]> By: Andrei http://alexbrie.net/551/intelectual-property/#comment-870 Andrei Fri, 13 Jan 2006 23:34:32 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=551#comment-870 <p>This judgement seems somewhat flawed to me. I doubt that an (truly) innovating startup can survive without IP laws, as any original invention of their own will be copied verbatim by the behemoths of the industry leaving them (the startup) with nothing.</p> This judgement seems somewhat flawed to me. I doubt that an (truly) innovating startup can survive without IP laws, as any original invention of their own will be copied verbatim by the behemoths of the industry leaving them (the startup) with nothing.

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