patent wars

Do you know that a lot of money is wasted each year for developing products already patented?
Do you know that fighting over intellectual property is prohibitively expensive?
Do you know which strategies enterprises use in such conflicts?
The MATRIXWARE™ VIDEO is an exciting journey through the amazing world of inventions and patents. Enjoy!
Text & Concept: Peter Kawinek
Editing: Ralf Traunsteiner
Speaker: Dunkan Larkin

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• patent
• intellectual
• property
• ip
• copyright
• innovation
• invention
• history
• matrixware
• kawinek
• traunsteiner
• larkin

[Piscivorus]

Protect their ideas from what? The free for all of ideas is how competition works in free markets. People have been seriously mislead into believing that this basic liberty constitutes some kind of theft. But it can't be theft because it doesn't deprive anyone of anything. It's only because of patents that ideas can be stolen.

[Piscivorus]

Mark Twain was wrong, there's no such thing as "good" patent law. Patents don't protect ideas, they give companies the authority to prohibit other companies from fairly competing and contributing to society. They destroy the most important freedoms of free markets. If someone has an idea they don't want to share, fine, they can keep it to themselves. But, if they want to make money on it, they have to share it with the public and that alone should give everyone else the right to use it too.

[hwjbeltman]

The solution is too simple;

Patents are not allowed to be aquired by a company, only by people. Those people cannot sell their patent, but somebody can inherit a patent from somebody how died. A patent can only be active for 25 years. If the people that have a patent do not use it, the patent becomes free to use by everyone.

[Yezpahr]

Damn, I nearly muted this voice, but it kept hurting my ears...

[elchippe]

@boxerballsbrendan The biggest patent holders are big companies and they used to destroy little competitors.

[passeip]

if i offered you an investment in an idea that would cost 10 million to develop but could make 10 times that amount would that be an interesting investment? Let me change the senario and add one more fact. Suppose that once we completed the idea and introduced it to the market place Microsoft could make a copy for 50 bucks manufacture it cheaper than us and sell it world wide before we could get it to our second store. Still interested? A tradeoff where exclusivity is only temporarily awarded.

[GatorWinup]

@Piscivorus Interesting perspective. I wonder how you have performed in your classroom. If your instructor requires each student to finish a class project that requires at lease 50 hours of work on a subject that is conceptual (say, a program, a digital painting, a computer aided design, etc.), and you spent 65 hours on it and receive an A. Then another student, who did not take any effort or spend any time, stole your work and receive an A. How would you feel? Ans: "Protect from plagiarism"

[Hopefulfilment]

Any cellphone today contains 100s of patents that were made just to make it harder for the competition to build one. The problem is that now every cellphone comp.owns many pat that are essential for ANY company to make ANY cellphone, hence they have to buy the rights of using the pat from each other and the cellphones get more expensive with no benefit for anyone but the company with the most patents. Whats more is that this makes it very expensive to start a new comp. thus limiting competition

[frogman360]

@Piscivorus

Yes what you are saying is mostly true. Monopolizing an idea is inefficient in a free market. However, if a firm or individual can not make money off an idea, then they will have no incentive to produce good ideas. Therefore, a trade off has to be made.

[hawaiiankillahulua]

@Piscivorus absolutley not not...your fucking guy..check it out...you come up with an idea...you have no money but you save and save..you finally put your idea out...just to have some huge company that has more money then you and better lawyers and better everything with way more backing completley wipe you out...thumbs up for patent!! it crazy that you think its stupid..wtf...give me an exampple of how it could be bad.

[philipcy]

i studied Intellectual Property and this video is way missing the point; it is nothing as exciting or 'IP-War" as they say. It is pretty much a new law area which is growing continuously.