11 Aug
2014
11 Aug
'14
1:42 a.m.
Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Patents are limited monopolies granted in exchange for publication of what would otherwise remain trade secrets.
Indeed they are, and this point is too often lost in these discussions. There is also a tendency to rely on bad examples of software patents, rather than examples that illustrate genuine innovation and real investment in research that might not be made otherwise.