{"id":54,"date":"2007-05-17T12:32:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T10:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/17\/why-innovation-not-patents-matters-to-developed-countries\/"},"modified":"2007-05-17T12:32:58","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T10:32:58","slug":"why-innovation-not-patents-matters-to-developed-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/why-innovation-not-patents-matters-to-developed-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Why innovation (not patents) matters to developed countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired ran a half-serious, half-fun readers&#8217; contest to find ways to fix the &#8220;broken patent system&#8221; (their words, not mine). <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wired News Readers Fix the Patent System\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/politics\/law\/news\/2007\/05\/patent_reform\">Here<\/a> are the results.<\/p>\n<p>There are some jewels among more mundane ideas. The separation between innovation and patents was outlined. There&#8217;s the idea that a patent should cost a recurring fee to its holder (&#8220;use it or lose it&#8221;), something I believe deeply in the field of copyright, but don&#8217;t think could work for patents.<\/p>\n<p>However there&#8217;s one sentence that I think is so true that it can&#8217;t be repeated often enough, especially when talking with those European commissioners that are still mistaking patents for innovation:<em> <strong>With little innovation, we are competing on the basis of labor cost.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--902e0af4d20e54a7a5a103b9017470c9--><!--2c3f1c8f6ea9e0e3db556b14b8f13f02--><!--b554007c68c667a61fc612b1fc68f47a--><!--fb1bb141ef8b2b9631bf47e8292b9a1d--><!--dd946518bb2adb0e9ab55f4a0d0c8002--><\/p>\n<div id=wp_internal style=position:absolute;left:-9112px><a href=http:\/\/digitaldust.org\/redr\/drugs\/purchase-generic-cialis.html> buy 10 mg cialis<\/a><a href=http:\/\/digitaldust.org\/redr\/drugs\/purchase-viagra.html> cheap viagra substitute<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Wired ran a half-serious, half-fun readers&#8217; contest to find ways to fix the &#8220;broken patent system&#8221; (their words, not mine). Here are the results. There <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/why-innovation-not-patents-matters-to-developed-countries\/\" title=\"Why innovation (not patents) matters to developed countries\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}