Comments on: Prove that would have been invented without patents!

By: Patent Lawyers Who Don’t Toe the Line Should Be Punished! | Austrian Economics Blog

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:00:57 +0000

[...] They don’t pretend to know. They don’t take this seriously. They don’t have any idea of the costs, or the benefits, or the net. They don’t care about the costs–costs (patent lawyers’ salaries, say) are benefits to them, you see. They most they will do is trot out some off-the-cuff, non-serious remark that western countries are more prosperous and have patent systems; or we have had economic growth in America, coinciding with the patent system’s implementation. Wow. How rigorous. Never heard of the idea that correlation is not causation? Maybe the pro-property industrialized countries tend to tax and war and regulate and impose patent systems because they can afford it. (See Interactive Graphic Pretends to Illustrate How U.S. Patent System Has Driven American Economy; Prove that would have been invented without patents!.) [...]

By: Patent Lawyers Who Don’t Toe the Line Should Be Punished!

Patent Lawyers Who Don’t Toe the Line Should Be Punished! — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:50:52 +0000

[...] They don’t pretend to know. They don’t take this seriously. They don’t have any idea of the costs, or the benefits, or the net. They don’t care about the costs–costs (patent lawyers’ salaries, say) are benefits to them, you see. They most they will do is trot out some off the cuff, non-serious remark that western countries are more prosperous and have patent systems; or we have had economic growth in America, coinciding with the patent system’s implementation. Wow. How rigorous. Never heard of the idea that correlations is not causation? Maybe the pro-property industrialized countries tend to tax and war and regulate and impose patent systems because they can afford it. (See Interactive Graphic Pretends to Illustrate How U.S. Patent System Has Driven American Economy; Prove that would have been invented without patents!.) [...]

By: PhantomX

PhantomX — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:22:00 +0000

A patent is not required for an invention to be introduced, absorbed into the usefulness of society and exploited by individuals looking to sell a good idea without permissions from the owner (s}: your friend,
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