Das Patentamt ist dabei, schlechte Patente unantastbar zu machen
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchable
Das Patentamt ist dabei, schlechte Patente unantastbar zu machen
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchable
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I’m open to the argument that patents shouldn’t even be a thing, or at least have a dramatically higher standard. The fetishization of the idea of the individual inventor is at best an anachronism. The US needs to reorient its relationship with innovation towards celebration of actual productive capacity and not this weird concept of divine inspiration.
Grifter admin wants more grifting to occur in the country
IIT lots of people who don’t know the difference between patents and other kinds of intellectual property like copyrights and trademarks.
Consider one of the alternatives – a research group project comes up with a new lifesaving item, maybe a new drug or maybe a medical device. It cost massive amounts of money to develop. If the company that paid for it could patent it, some information about it would be public knowledge. Without a patent the information is a very closely guarded secret. The government has zero leverage to coerce the release of the information. The device or drug is priced at millions of dollars per dose. It’s not ever going to be possible to produce a generic version because the security is too tight around each dose. (I’m a retired chemist/biochemist-if the profit margin is high enough this is completely possible)
I’m not saying that the current system is very bad, just that abolishing it without putting something in its place could cause worse outcomes.
Just a reminder, Harry Reid blocked patent reform in congress, and he bragged that it was his shining achievements.
Question should be „who are they trying to cover for“….
Who benefits from this campaign? The public? Or the corporations that are the major donors to the EFF?