Too Many Patents as Bad as Too Few 203
NonSoftAntiCurve writes "Forbes.com has an interesting article about how too many patents are as bad as too few when it comes to incentives for innovation. 'The tension between the patent as a way to stimulate invention and the patent as a weapon against legitimate competition is inherent in the system.' There is a scary example of how this plays out in practice."
Sound like a martial arts movie plot (Score:2, Funny)
Pity though.
Re:Too Many Patents, Like this one on the Wheel (Score:1, Funny)
[ducks for cover]
See the Violence inherent in the system! (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.intriguing.com/mp/_scripts/peasant.t
Let's apply Moore's Law to tech patents (Score:4, Funny)