Reform, Reform, Reform

Published on August 16, 2005 by Philip Mann

However another article about "Patent reform" today. To listen to some of these guys, you would think that Microsoft, breach, goggles and IBM in the world at risk of being exhausted by small patent holders.

Where it was lost for the first time, try again.!

A patent right is a right of property. The essence of a right of property is the right to exclude others. "Own" my home media I keep strangers and others that I don't want to live there. You have a right of property "legal" means that I can call envelope legal help system (for example, if strangers in my house are considerably larger I am). Similarly, if you took a chance and buy a house in a less established area and a few years later the area gets "hot" and now I can sell it for several times what I paid, what something inherently wrong in this? (This is, after all, America...) Should the law intervene and me "rent" in my house any stranger who wants to, or worse yet, simply breaks in and takes it force? Should the law intervene and me to do so at reduced prices, when the stranger is a billionaire and can easily afford to what I am demanding force? Why things be different when the property is a patent, rather than using a home?

I do not know of, the proposed "reforms", I think most unpleasant. (There are so many good choices!) Today, I think the attack of injunctions is what me more galls. What if you can't keep people out of their property, which makes "yours" or "property"?

The author of the article object asks "why should care." You must, but perhaps not for the reasons that thought.

When I was an engineer, I had no intention to spend my life with a huge company. Like many of my contemporaries, I had dreams of learning the ropes with an established company and then forming my own business around a new idea. Law school and some other things kind of diversion for a time, but would like to think young fixed fee today that dream. If do them, I hope to realize that patents strong and, more importantly, a legal system that will enforce even against the interests of powerful enterprises, are some of the few things that could give them a break even. If so, should be fighting against these so-called "patent reform" tooth and nail.

Time will tell.

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