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   So...

   

   Sanguine Dream, May 16th, 2007 @ 2:06pm

   
   

   before the US government (and big business for that matter) can prove to the American public how patents encourage innovation they are already trying to force other countries to follow suit.
   
   I'm only an average guy (meaning I'm not a known figure in the tech world) but I have yet to hear one explaination, even a weak one, in favor of the notion that patents encourage innovation.

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   Re: So...

   

   discojohnson, May 16th, 2007 @ 3:19pm

   
   

   uh oh, a challenge, Mike. best i can come up with in 30 seconds is: person A sees that we need a polymer to bond certain metals to other metals. person A spends weeks in the lab coming up with it. the invention is born and s/he now knows s/he'll be rich because people would rather glue something than use screws (potentially). s/he saw the need for something, did it, and now can retire. the world is better for it because now we have this specific polymer. now when the patent is sold to 3M, no one else can use this specific formula, but folks will imitate it (as how it's done is published in the patent form) and make generics, driving down the costs (good for consumers). win for the inventor, win for the consumer, and win for the retailer (they now can sell another product to make money).

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   Re: Re: So...

   

   Sean Pencilly, May 16th, 2007 @ 3:46pm

   
   

   So Disco, you're idea of innovation is the manipulation of the same idea presented by someone else?
   
   That could have quite possibly been the poorest excuse for an analogy that I have ever bared witness to.
   
   Either that or you're just dumb.
   
   The jury is still out on that one.

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   Why patents are good

   

   Anonymous Coward, May 16th, 2007 @ 3:47pm

   
   

   1. File for patent
   2. ???
   3. Profit

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   jinni, May 16th, 2007 @ 4:06pm

   
   

   South Korea is the developing country, not the developed country. We have a few patent compared to any other leading country, such as the U.S.
   
   In addition, the government-backed patent trolling organization violate the law related to trade.
   
   I was wondering the role of the organization.

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   Re: Why patents are good

   

   Bryan, May 16th, 2007 @ 4:33pm

   
   

   Hilarious! Because its true! From South Park, right?

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   Re: Why patents are good

   

   Charles Griswold, May 16th, 2007 @ 7:57pm

   
   

   1. File for patent
   2. ???
   3. Profit

   2. Sue the living crap out of everyone and their dogs.

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   Read the thing before you open your pie-hole

   

   Dram Man, May 16th, 2007 @ 9:07pm

   
   

   Technicaly its a private comany, in this case CJ Asset Management, helping a govrenment instutute enforce its patents. Its not exactly a Korean govrenmnet funded effort. It would be akin to, say, the Blackstone Captial group offering to fund a defense of patents for Lawernce Livermore Labs.
   
   Nor will it benefit Samsung and LG. However it is interesting how the article studiously avoids mentioning the two companies as possible targets.
   
   No doubt however by its own implication a troll fund.

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   Re: Re: Re: So...

   

   discojohnson, May 21st, 2007 @ 7:36am

   
   

   By your logic, then there can only ever be one type of glue, one type of engine, one type of soda, one tv...see where this is going? Great thought process, Sean; better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you're an idiot.

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