What do you call a government that uses force to guarantee a monopoly right for a particular person or entity based on who is assigned “ownership” of the idea according to an opaque, inaccessible, expensive, and poorly understood bureaucratic and legal process?
Commerce must be nimble. Throwing up seven and eighteen year road blocks over ideas like square vs rounded corners is pure idiocy, and the US only stands to lose in the global economy using such an outdated approach. The Chinese are laughing at us while using our own patent laws to crush their US competition. Most recently a Chinese firm obtained a prototype for the new iPhone. We are opening up a Pandora’s Box that we don’t properly understand or respect, and we are tripling down on our bet by forcing this broken system onto the global scene via secret trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific-Partnership (currently the reward for a leaked draft of this text tops $25,000— members of Congress on the oversight committee don’t even have access, though over 600 corporate lobbyists have it already!).
What do you call a government that uses force to guarantee a monopoly right for a particular person or entity based on who is assigned “ownership” of the idea according to an opaque, inaccessible, expensive, and poorly understood bureaucratic and legal process?
Commerce must be nimble. Throwing up seven and eighteen year road blocks over ideas like square vs rounded corners is pure idiocy, and the US only stands to lose in the global economy using such an outdated approach. The Chinese are laughing at us while using our own patent laws to crush their US competition. Most recently a Chinese firm obtained a prototype for the new iPhone. We are opening up a Pandora’s Box that we don’t properly understand or respect, and we are tripling down on our bet by forcing this broken system onto the global scene via secret trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific-Partnership (currently the reward for a leaked draft of this text tops $25,000— members of Congress on the oversight committee don’t even have access, though over 600 corporate lobbyists have it already!).