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Article #73548Re: Ben Franklin on patents
From: Thomas M. Breuel
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1991 22:24
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1991 22:24
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In article <PCG.91Aug18210217@aberda.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: My favourite solution would be, instead of granting the inventor esclusive *manufacturing* rights, granting him exclusive *royalty* rights for say 10-20 years on the actual selling price of products incorporating that invention, i.e. a kind of sales "tax", going to the inventor. [...] The royalty would be by default something like 3-5% (which is little for a new product, where profit margins can be supposed to be something like 30-50%, and a lot for mature products, where they can be supposed to be around 5-10%), and the inventor could reduce (but not increase) it at will. So, what happens if I use 100 patented inventions in my product? Do the 3-5% get split among the different patent holders?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9434f7b17f215464 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-08-18 16:02:14 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!stanford.edu!bu.edu!ai-lab!life!tmb From: tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Ben Franklin on patents Message-ID: <TMB.91Aug18182419@volterra.ai.mit.edu> Date: 18 Aug 91 22:24:19 GMT References: <562@ubbpc.Unisys.com> <65707@bbn.BBN.COM> <1991Aug13.183216.19588@agate.berkeley.edu> <48185@netnews.upenn.edu> <1991Aug14.153229.18561@alphalpha.com> <PCG.91Aug18210217@aberda.aber.ac.uk> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 15 In-reply-to: pcg@aber.ac.uk's message of 18 Aug 91 21:02:17 GMT