[nirvana]

Patents are not about information nor ideas. The design patents are equivilent to trademarks.

Utility patents are about novel original inventions, not ideas. You can't patent an idea.

If you've ever gone thru the process of patenting an invention, you'd know that it is not abundant.

In fact, any kind of brains at all is rare. (And for the record natural resources are abundant and only limited when government has control-- there is more oil in the world than we could ever hope to use at current rates. We'll have moved on to other technologies long before we run out- but the high costs of oil are artificial scarcity created by government.)

[jr2]

While I agree with you on the point on oil there, could you provide a few links to back this up? Although in most cases they won't make a difference, they will to someone with an open mind.

[jaekwon]

What's the difference between an invention, an innovation, and an idea?