Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 16, 2006 06:17 AM
The biggest problem with patents is the process called evergreening.
You Patent once. When that gets near its end you Patent again just with different wording.
Yes this is legally wrong. But its happening.
What we need is a mirror list. Patented in one list. Public Domain in another. If a company Patents something covered by the Public Domain list they are guilty of IP thieft. And have to provide patents to the Public Domain pile as payment. If have no other Patents must provide working documentation/source code public domain to everything they made that depended on the patent.
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A patent will run out sooner or latter.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 16, 2006 06:17 AMYou Patent once. When that gets near its end you Patent again just with different wording.
Yes this is legally wrong. But its happening.
What we need is a mirror list. Patented in one list. Public Domain in another. If a company Patents something covered by the Public Domain list they are guilty of IP thieft. And have to provide patents to the Public Domain pile as payment. If have no other Patents must provide working documentation/source code public domain to everything they made that depended on the patent.
It will work because it hurts to break it.
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