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Re: Ben Franklin on patents

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From: Thomas M. Breuel
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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