I agree with your freedom of information idea but with not
allowing people to keep their own patents I have a problem
with. If you cannot register a patent and keep it as you
own then no body or company will do the research to create
the patent. But let me clean it up for you. How about
if you allow patents to be registered and held in the creators
name and all rights to it, but the way to create the patent and
produce it must be free so that people may improve on it.
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> From: david wilkinson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Subject: MD perhaps why?
>
> I was thinking about why the market lends itself so well to monopolistic
> practices, and how quality can help to bridge this rift. I think, looking
>
> at the major monopolists, that patents are a big problem. Patents allow
> individual companies to have exclusive rights to a particular
> technology/invention etc. Once these exclusive rights are given then
> immediatly the pattern tends towards static. These patents are used to
> impliment false bottom lines, by way of monopoly (which as a few of you
> have
> pointed out, is indeed static like). This prevents, in a big way, other
> frims/individuals using that particular discovery, resulting in reduced
> chance of this technology being improved upon. The improvement of
> whatever
> the patent was for is the embodiment of quality, improvement, or as I
> believe this may also be called evolution. Somehting being in essentially
>
> all aspects superior from what it began with. Patents prevent this.
> Using
> statistics this is painfully obvious, purely less people being able to
> attempt something, not very high quality. If a producer can come up witha
>
> way of producing say, teflon, for halff the current price then surely this
>
> would be a good thing, for the entire society as a whole. However as
> dupont
> holds the patent, other companies are not even able to try, as it is
> illegal. This is ludicrous and shows no interest in the common good. I
> am
> completely aware that it (patents) are so the effort (research and
> development costs etc), expertise and entrepreneurship are duly rewarded,
> however this I beleive does not offset the loss of social welfare as a
> result of such monopoly inducing practice. Everyone should be able to
> produce anything, if they have the ability to do so at a lesser price than
>
> is currently being offered (obviously as if it were more expensive then
> they
> wouldnt sell it) Using patented knowledge as a sheild should be frowned
> upon from all angles. This would create a very dynamic environment, and
> also one that should sit well with market demand/supply theorists. If
> patents were rendered null and void then people as individuals would have
> access to such information, (after all in the "free" market we are the
> ones
> that are paying the money anyway) and individuals with the ability to
> understand the theory would be able to produce their own, in situations
> that
> allow (obviously we couldnt go out and make a jumbo jet), or be able to
> theorise a new way of doing things = dynamic (Like the removel of a shear
> pin from the side cover of a motorcycle, maybe you come up with a new way
> that has never been done before and make a million dollars) We are being
> prevented from using the knowledge that humanity through the ages has
> provided us with, and this I think is a big problem, seeing as each and
> every one of us has had a role, however small, of allowing that discovery
> to
> happen.
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