Here is a very encouraging image, that of what one enterprising young woman calls the "patent free zone." In essence non-green means almost no patents.
She does make a useful point on her website:
Where I was hoping to read of some initiative to expand freedom, and she hints at this...
It is a great observation, this patent-free zone. For these areas to enjoy a renaissance, market development like the USA and China, they must eschew patents as USA and China have done during their rise to modernity. Great observation, what is the plan?
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She does make a useful point on her website:
You now have the right to stop other people from making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing your invention in the US for 20 years. Only in the US — it's a US patent. You cannotstop anyone from using your patent outside of the US. To get that right in another country, you must apply for a patent in that country, usually within one year of receiving a US patent.What she does not point out is there is almost no market in those zones so pursuing a patent is desultory for the USA patentholder. One can make patented items in those areas, and sell them unmolested by USA or other country patent holders, but then, to whom? There is little if any market in those zones. And if there is a USA patent on any such item, just because it was made in a patent free zone does not mean it can be sold into USA.
Where I was hoping to read of some initiative to expand freedom, and she hints at this...
Nothing is walled off, so there are paths everywhere, but few private spaces. Patent Free Zones are a little like that. There are no private, walled-off ideas: they're free for everyone to share and use. It's a place of great opportunity, need, and challenge. Welcome to a wide-open country.But what exactly is the plan? More of an argument... for what?
It sounds like stealing, doesn't it? You come up with a great idea, go to a lot of work and expense to patent it (in the US), and then I just take what you've done, without asking, and get rich off it. That sounds unfair.Not to me. First of something is not wrong because someone with a gun says so. It has to do harm to be wrong, and capitalizing on a good idea does no one else any harm.
It is a great observation, this patent-free zone. For these areas to enjoy a renaissance, market development like the USA and China, they must eschew patents as USA and China have done during their rise to modernity. Great observation, what is the plan?
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
1 comments:
What about the issue that almost nothing on the market is actually covered by a patent? How does this change the analysis then?
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