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Article #73514Re: Patents
From: Andre Marien
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1991 14:47
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1991 14:47
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What a lot of people have been saying in on or another way: if the MTBR (Mean Time Before Reinvention) is a whole lot smaller than the PD (patent duration), the patent system is not serving any of its noble goals, no matter what it is for, software/hardware/chemistry./... . A more accurate inequation would take into account the $$ spend for the reinvention: MTBR*$$/PD 'small' => get rid of the patent In many cases current software patents would have a VERY low ratio. Andre' Marien bimandre@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9434f7b17f215464 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-09-03 10:35:05 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ub4b!kulcs!news From: bimandre@saturnus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Andre Marien) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Patents Message-ID: <1991Sep3.144755.404@kulcs.uucp> Date: 3 Sep 91 14:47:55 GMT References: <ROCKWELL.91Sep3075007@socrates.umd.edu> ao. Sender: Andre' Marien Distribution: gnu Organization: Dept. of Computer Science (K.U.Leuven) Lines: 11 Originator: bimandre@saturnus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be