Comments on: Close the patent office right now! http://johnwilker.com/2009/03/close-the-patent-office-right-now/ John Wilker: Community, Code, Randomness Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:39:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Wilker http://johnwilker.com/2009/03/close-the-patent-office-right-now/comment-page-1/#comment-1634 John Wilker Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:16:19 +0000 http://johnwilker.com/?p=737#comment-1634 I disagree. Big, small whatever, if a company can't execute in 5 years, too bad. I'd prefer no patents, but a time limit should be a short term goal. I mean look at MONEC. 7 years? That's innovation killing. In 7 years there should be a prototype at least. Not a mock up, a fully functional prototype. Prototype == extension. Let's face it most big companies that can bulldoze aren't the innovators, they wait until some one else does something cool. I disagree. Big, small whatever, if a company can't execute in 5 years, too bad. I'd prefer no patents, but a time limit should be a short term goal. I mean look at MONEC. 7 years? That's innovation killing. In 7 years there should be a prototype at least. Not a mock up, a fully functional prototype. Prototype == extension.

Let's face it most big companies that can bulldoze aren't the innovators, they wait until some one else does something cool.

]]> By: Harry http://johnwilker.com/2009/03/close-the-patent-office-right-now/comment-page-1/#comment-1633 Harry Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:08:26 +0000 http://johnwilker.com/?p=737#comment-1633 I suggest that we hang on a few years until my latest filings get rolled through, THEN close it. Clearly a patent is a valuable thing to have because it creates leverage in the market place. Without the value of a patent, I don't think my employer would be as inclined to hire me to innovate. My employer might not be big enough to make a single announcement at a single tradeshow and start a multi-million dollar business branch in the first year. But if they have a patent that's valuable in the industry, at least they get their fair share of something when a company that's too big to compete with bulldozes through the marketplace. I suggest that we hang on a few years until my latest filings get rolled through, THEN close it.

Clearly a patent is a valuable thing to have because it creates leverage in the market place. Without the value of a patent, I don't think my employer would be as inclined to hire me to innovate.

My employer might not be big enough to make a single announcement at a single tradeshow and start a multi-million dollar business branch in the first year. But if they have a patent that's valuable in the industry, at least they get their fair share of something when a company that's too big to compete with bulldozes through the marketplace.

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