Comments on: How the Death of Patents Unleashed Open Source Innovation for 3D Printing https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-the-death-of-patents-unleashed-open-source-innovation-for-3d-printing/2013/11/04 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:02:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 By: Sepp Hasslberger https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-the-death-of-patents-unleashed-open-source-innovation-for-3d-printing/2013/11/04/comment-page-1#comment-561222 Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:03:09 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=33842#comment-561222 Very interesting.

I started agitating against patents in ’89 when I saw what they did to technological progress in the energy field. So many good inventions lost because patents provided the legal means to prevent a new device ever getting to market. The incumbents (mostly big oil) could and did simply buy up the patents and shelve them.

So it is interesting to see that patents may go the way of the dustbin by just falling into disuse, rather than by anyone forcing changes in the law…

http://www.hasslberger.com/pat/pate_1.htm

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