Corrected link to Borlaug article
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/17495 - Perplexed
View ArticleThe Problem Goes Beyond Patents and Copyright
So far, so good, but the problem really goes beyond Patent and Copyrights. The legal system as a whole gives preferences to wealth and power. I think of it as the Great Government Rulebook, which...
View ArticleOne must also remember the innovators in a corporation do not own their patents
Re: "that you don't much like the idea of people becoming rich through their own efforts, so you have to conjure up a theory that the rewards of those endeavors are simply granted by the government"...
View ArticleThe bulk of the creative work at Apple is done by people underpaid due to...
[url]http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/04/silicon-valleys-engineering-salaries-are-finally-getting-fair-thank-facebook/[/url] [quote]... For years, the biggest tech companies conspired to drive down...
View ArticleA correction to my earlier post and a not patented valuable public domain...
I reread my post and "intermittent windshield washer" should be "intermittent windshield wiper". Also, for an example of a valuable software algorithm that was not patented, and has proven very useful...
View ArticleDean,
I won't split hairs with you over what constitutes harassment as opposed to legitimate patent protection; I think there is too much patent litigation. However, I believe there is too much litigation in...
View ArticleDan Norris, please explain the Netscape Navigator example
The Netscape Navigator arose from Marc Andreessen's and Jim Clark's desire to commercialize the Mosaic Browser co-written by Andreesen while he was a part time employee of the National Center for...
View ArticleJohn
Yes, that's exactly what I said. There's no question that Internet applications would not have been possible without government research. What government researcher took it forward as did Jim Clark? Of...
View ArticleRowling ? He must be joking ?
NIH hell. Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone after receiving an extraordinary grant from the Scottish humanities Council. Before that she was on welfare. Her case demonstrates a cost...
View ArticleSeriously
This article was largely garbage. Do you even know what a free market is? Do you not understand that freedom is relative? JK Rowling has every right to money she earned off those books, and none of you...
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[b]Dan Norris[/b] wrote, [quote]To reward those who invest their toil and treasure in the pursuit of new inventions that improve the quality of people's lives. [/quote] That's not what the Constitution...
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[b]Christ[/b] wrote, [quote]Do you even know what a free market is?[/quote] Unlike you, he knows that so-called intellectual property rights are government-granted monopolies. [quote]Property rights...
View ArticleSalk and patents
The following is a commentary on the Biotech Now website concerning some mis-infomation about Salk and patents. " the oft quoted Jonas Salk statement about his Polio vaccine: “There is no patent. Could...
View ArticleLet's debate something dificult
Baker makes two true but completely obvious points: property rights are created by governments; and we don't know if the incentives created by certain property rights are perfectly calibrated....
View ArticleTo Liberal
Some of you guys like semantic diversion so much that one might think you simply can't accept the truth when it's in front of your face. OF COURSE the purpose of the Constitution's grant of power to...
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How did this clown "Christ" stumble upon a CEPR blog? Must have mis-clicked while he was fapping to old von Mises manuscripts. Free market is supposed to mean no government intervention. You can't just...
View ArticleUh, Steve Jobs didn't actually CREATE anything....
Well, Steve Jobs didn't actually CREATE any new technology--his so-called "innovations" were merely taking this and that from the public sector, like in the case of the GUI, stole it from Xerox, which...
View Articlere: many patents were discovered by government funded research...
Many patents were discovered by researchers being PAID to do research by the government, while employed at some University or hospital...then this so-called "innovator" takes a patent out on the...
View ArticleDavid Helvetika
You appear to have misconceptions about patents on government work. Among other things, note that the federal government itself is the holder of most American patents....
View ArticleRowling again
Others have pointed out that JK Rowling was supported by various forms of government funding while writing the first Harry Potter book. *After* the success of that book, JKR became incredibly wealthy....
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