The Unitary Patent hasn’t been getting the attention it deserves. This is because we’re fighting off surveillance, attempts to take over the internet, and…
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Sudden Mass Support From Oldmedia: "Patents Do Prevent Innovation"
It appears that the world of oldmedia has woken up like one to the fact that patents prevent innovation — in fact, that it’s…
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The Twenty-Year Web Cache
You’ve felt the frustration many times. As you write a comment on an interesting story, the web server responds with the message that the…
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Ten Myths About Patents
Patent monopolies were an instrument during the guild era that regulated how knowledge could pass from master artisans to their apprentices. For some reason,…
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Startup Investors: "Patents are a cancer"
One oft-questioned objective of the Pirate Parties is the dismantlement of the patent system, as in scrapping the concept altogether. Patents are a remnant…
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An Alternative to Pharmaceutical Patents
It has been previously established that the pharmaceutical industry is the only industry gaining from the patent system at all. For all other industries,…
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