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skeptonomist, Before Charlatan Rattner was financial advisor to NYC mayor Bloomberg, before he played with NY State pension funds, before he was Obama's Car Czar, before he was a big-time donor to the...
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Patents were around long before the 1980s, and generally being corporate-owned, probably have nothing to do with upward distribution to wealthy individuals. Why focus on this likely bogus cause without...
View ArticlePatent protection became much deeper and longer
That is why I talk about. We spend close to $250 billion more than the free market cost of drugs each year because of patent protection. As a share of GDP it would not have been even one-third as large...
View Articlepatents: why do they exist?
Patents are government-granted monopolies that specifically and legally enforce the distribution of income to the patent-holder (whether they created anything or not). As Michele Boldrin and David K....
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urban legend, You're right, patents aren't the ONLY story here. The move from a progressive tax to a regressive one is probably the PROXIMATE issue here, as you implied in your post. The work by...
View ArticlePatents? Really?
Technology entrepreneurs as the root of evil in the inequality discussion? What kind of device did you type this piece up on? Upload it with? What kind of technologies are being used to make it...
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it was financed by the government, not patent monopolies. - Dean
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True. But you would still be dialing up on a 300 baud modem and staring at a command line prompt like the ARPANET guys did without the innovations that Silicon Valley brought you. The patent system was...
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[b]Blue Meme[/b] wrote, [quote]The patent system was a big part of that.[/quote] And you know this, how? - liberal
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liberal wrote: "And you know this how?" As someone who has raised venture capital in large part on the strength of a portfolio of patent applications. As someone who has worked for a medium-sized...
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Blue Meme, The anger is more directed toward how abuse of the patent system has led pharmaceutical and medical technology companies to extort the public beyond reason to the point that it's harming us...
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Chris Engel: "recourse in the legal system over patents is actually not that common" I completely agree. But that doesn't mean that the patent system isn't serving a valuable purpose, just as the lack...
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It's not OT. Patent reform is one of Dean Baker's passions and it's always on topic here for that reason, I'd imagine. In SV when you have an idea the patent filed is just a formality that shows you've...
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I find it illuminating that Rattner and other fiscal scaremongers only use a present value analysis to measure the cost of future benefits to average taxpayers --- and let's not forget that nobody...
View Articlethe patent system IS one of the droids we are looking for
Apparently, Blue Meme likes to ignore inconvenient empirical data to the contrary, but patents do not serve any of the purposes which he magically ascribes to them. Maybe BM has a patent himself?...
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David, I think you and I were both smelling the same funk from over there at Blue Meme's pro-patent rant. While I'm hesitant to call anyone a term like "patent troll" without more evidence (since he...
View Articleretired public emergency services administrator
"... to allow charlatans like Rattner to talk about these ridiculous "unfunded liabilities" as if they had some meaning. ...follow(ing) the methodology of Rattner and the SS bashers..." I've been...
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http://www.fold3.com/page/286019384_nazi_propaganda_against_the_disabled/ - nealbirch
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[b]blue meme[/b] wrote, [quote]As someone who has raised venture capital in large part on the strength of a portfolio of patent applications. As someone who has worked for a medium-sized company that...
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Jeebus, The mistake I made was not the logical fallacy called "appeal t authority," which takes the following form: Most of what authority A has to say on subject matter S is correct. A says P about...
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