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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 advantages would be manyfold:
   ...
   2) Reduce to a miminum legal conflict and administrative costs. Anybody
   can license an invention if he pays the inventor. A simple Patent Fee
   Center could be setup.

Well, it would be a BIG minimum, as inventors would sue each other
because they think some royalty patent is on false grounds (or just
want to take it over). It is pretty easy to see how this scheme would
make *inventors* very, very rich, and so much would be at stake, that
it would lead more or less automatically to lawsuits (at least that's
the impression I have of the US law system).
  I guess I wouldn't want to be the little inventor guy when Eppla
corporation sues for cloning their resu interface...

   Piercarlo Grandi                   | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk

-- Leonard