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by NotYourLawyer 1073 days ago
Yeah, THAT will incentivize people to come up with more stuff like this!
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ajuc 1073 days ago
If free market can't get this done, maybe we should just pay people from our taxes to do such research?
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DropInIn 1073 days ago
The IP is effectively valueless if there is no intent to monetize it.

Really....

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Clent 1073 days ago
It would incentivize them to use or lose it.

The government is protecting their discovery via patent law, why is it not allowed to remove this protection.

Patents and copyright are very recent inventions. Not everyone is motivated by profit. People were inventing things before capitalism consumed the world.

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