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by nickpsecurity
2817 days ago
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They've actually been supporting monopolies and oligopolies by large, barely-innovating companies or patent trolls seeking to maximize profit at everyone else's expense. https://www.eff.org/issues/patents Reform is desperately needed. Further, most startups or software we see on HN didn't happen because someone was reading patent databases all day. They usually just make stuff out of a need or want, try to grow it with iterations and marketing, and make money off that. Most use patents defensively or just to increase money in acquisition/IPO's since buyers think patents are important. Why buy them if innovation already happened? To stop others via patent suits from innovating and stealing their market share. Patents hurt innovation. |
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I don't disagree, but it's not like there aren't any arguments for both sides. You can point to negative outcomes for any piece of regulation, it doesn't put the whole concept into question.