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Re: Do Patents Encourage or Stifle Innovation?

Paul C. Scifo — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:33:45 -0000

I can’t believe how incredibly unsophisticated the views of your opponents to patenting are. The complaints they voice are rooted in governmental bureaucracy, legal complication and commercial disinformation - NOT - the rewarding - for a limited time - of creative and ambitious people. As a patent lawyer for more that thirty years, I have found that patents protect: the little guy; the big guy; the investor; the Country; and a whole lot of others as well. Patents represent new life and a basis for safety in investment. If the desire is to “fix” the system, the need is to immediately fix the US Patent and Trademark Office. That’s where the crisis is.

My recommendation to your patent opponents - read a little history. The patent system has been around in the US for well over two hundred year - and now reaches round the World in one form or another. It isn’t going away any time soon!

Re: Do Patents Encourage or Stifle Innovation?

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:16:54 -0000

Fred, Great material, thanks. I thought I'd show you an easier way to share your doc's online, using Zoho Writer:

http://snipurl.com/patentdiscussion

Re: Do Patents Encourage or Stifle Innovation?

Gerald Buckley — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:53:01 -0000

Maurice Kanbar's "Secrets from an Inventor's Notebook" is also an excellent book on the patent process and the value of having a patent in the first place (whether it's tech or biotech or consumer packaged goods).

Thanks for the transcript btw!