I was thoroughly convinced today by Terence Kealey, biochemist and most recently author of this book, that patents are bad, except maybe for pharmecuticals.
In summary, progress in science and technology is most enabled when people can freely share their ideas with each other. Coming up with an idea and then failing to contribute it to the relavent community is pretty useless.
This we knew, but what about the lowly inventor in her basement? Maybe it’s naive, but I had at least grown up thinking that patents existed to protect the future Edisons and Alexander Graham Bells. That was also a lot of the reason behind why I wanted to go into patent law in addition to the fact that I felt like it could leverage my skills in that field better than I could in straight up engineering. But the fact is that’s really not how it works, and we’d be much better off without them. So cross that one off the list I guess. phew!
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