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Jan 22, 2020
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CrimWalCoug
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Good topic.
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POLL: Patents and Trademarks: An inherent positive feature of capitalism, or antithetical to capitalism?
Linescratcher
1/22/20 9:49am
The ones I've learned about recently I dislike are some from drug companies.
Fatalplacebo
1/22/20 9:53am
I like Patents, trademarks have become absurd thanks to Disney's lobbying efforts.
HuskerFan2
1/22/20 9:53am
I think you mean copyrights.
Joe Banks
1/22/20 9:58am
you are right about copyright, but even trademark owners are now pushing
nwcat
1/22/20 10:01am
Eh, if you established a strong brand, would you want people trading off the goodwill you had invested billions in?
AD4
1/22/20 10:03am
*Copyright. Trademarks is a different ballgame, and they should be able to protect their trademark as long as they want.
AD4
1/22/20 9:59am
Correct.
HuskerFan2
1/22/20 11:03am
Good topic.
CrimWalCoug
1/22/20 9:54am
A patent does not necessarily grant monopoly power in the economic sense
Doctor Rosenrosen
1/22/20 10:11am
Funny that you say they aren't monopolies then give the definition of monopoly
jvquarterback
1/22/20 11:49am
The distinction is this:
Phasor
1/22/20 12:12pm
A monopoly is the right to exclude.
jvquarterback
1/22/20 1:05pm
RE: POLL: Patents and Trademarks: An inherent positive feature of capitalism, or
sanitarium
1/22/20 10:17am
Patents do cause issues. But for Pharma, FDA is the bottleneck
rcbyufan
1/22/20 10:38am
Patents are anti-competive government granted monopolies.
jvquarterback
1/22/20 11:46am
What would your R&D budget look like if whatever you developed
sanitarium
1/22/20 12:02pm
Yep. Patents are intended to encourage investment in R&D by acting as...
Phasor
1/22/20 12:30pm
And how much innovation would die unseen because the person who came up with it couldn't afford to take it to market?
Byron McNertney
1/22/20 12:35pm
And they fail in that aim.
jvquarterback
1/22/20 1:08pm
No difference if you believe the actual data.
jvquarterback
1/22/20 2:18pm
Well....are you going to provide it? I'd love to see it.
sanitarium
1/22/20 2:33pm
Here you go.
jvquarterback
1/22/20 3:56pm
Wow. Even Ayn Rand supported intellectual property rights. Your take is on the right of Objectivism.
Byron McNertney
1/22/20 12:04pm
Hardly. Eternal property rights the logical conclusion?
cdr88
1/22/20 1:52pm
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