Forum Post: Make all Patents public domian keep knowledge Free
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 23, 2011, 11:50 p.m. EST by sinthytechstudios
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What I have logged on to tell you guys at OWS is that one of your demands besides end the fed and the reinstatement of Glass-steagall should be to make all patents open source. Our closed source Patent system has led to and allowed the suppression of technologies that could save lives and propel people to the stars. On this page check out this patent and ask yourself why has this not been developed. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5676977.PN.&OS=PN/5676977&RS=PN/5676977
I don't see how a hundred years of internal combustion and Hdtv is scientific progress, to truly be free knowledge must be free. In the past scientists like Nikola Tesla created advancements like wireless electricity. Its a hundred years later and we have these stupid nuclear reactors like the one in Fukushima. We could have had free energy, we are probably a hundred and fifty years behind where we should be. Check the link below If you would like to know who Nikola tesla was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla We are a generation that has been robbed of our destiny, we have allowed aristocracy to tie us down and enslave us. Men like John R Searl knew that our destiny was in stars and he made a machine to take us there. Here is a movie about him and other inventors, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6UgV3gVmd0 A Machine to die for the quest for free Energy And for you more scientific types her is a tech demo of the Searl Levity Disk http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8635897559220353909 and here is his website http://www.searlsolution.com/johnsearl.html I know that you have all been told that you are the resistance but that is not true, you are the 99% you are the Authority. You own your government it does not own you as long as you stand for tyranny you shall have it.
This is Sinthytech the voice of reason signing off Goodnight America
It'd reduce incentive to innovate, so no.
What innovation 50 years of patroleum and wars no high speed rail this is a dark age and it has been for 50 years.
Can you honestly say that mankind has had no innovation over the past 50 years? Come on now.
Why shouldn't someone get paid for all of the work they have done? It's like when Napster said "music is free". No it's not! Many writers, producers, musicians and singers put a lot of time into its creation, and should get paid for it.
they should. but Sean Parker also "did some work" by allowing people who had paid for that music to share it with their "friends".
with all things OWS... let's not be either/ or, Right v. Left, Right v. Wrong. There's a balance. I don't doubt the post's assertion that patent laws are trending in the wrong direction. Inventors & creators should get paid. investors can get paid too. but after a reasonable period... (life of the artist + a decade??) many things Should revert to the public domain. This spurs innovation too.
If it goes to the public Domain too fast, I think it stops innovation. We need a balance of people being paid their worth, and the public good that is generated from new products and technology.
what is too fast? but I agree. and this is a rather tiny detail for OWS to take on. i did hear a rumor years back that lobbyists had successfully extended patent-life (or copyrights) increasing them significantly. the only thing I mind about that is "lobbyists". There doesn't seem to be Anyone looking out for the "public good".
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM.
I don't know how fast. I just feel people should earn a decent salary for their contributions.
no argument whatsoever. totally agree.
Dude look at the patents and read the links i think they may change your mind but at least we are having a dialog. my point is with our greed driven system most inventors don't get paid for their invention. I actually believe that John R Searls invention was seen over Phoenix as the Phoenix lights incident, he made his invention and was sent to jail you think that's fair.
I don't know the whole story, so it's kind of hard to make a decision.
I think you know more about it than most of us... point taken: the public domain should be extended and developed and protected.
but in the interest of encouraging more dialog, I don't think you really want to argue for an end to ALL patents. do you?
Its not so much an arguement as a discusion this is not only a revolution but a continuation of the revolution of 1776, so we must discus things that were not spoken of back then. We are still under indirect rule of the royal families of Europe. All of our presidents have been related to the monarchies of Europe, This is the day we finish the job. By the way music and art fall under copyrights not patents music and art are intellectual properties.
oh... my bad. same principle though, yes?
At the same time, allowing pharmaceutical companies to hold perpetual patents for old drugs, letting corporations back-patent commonly known technologies, or use trademark law to force smaller companies out of business should be made illegal.
I agree, please let's all work for the good of all!
It is our tax money that funds scientific research in the first place so yes I AGREE with you.
Somebody invents a widget, (lets ignore for the moment, the idea that people will actually try and invent, develop drugs, etc, with no financial gain, people who believe that need serious counseling) Lets say, said widget is an amazing, oh, i dunno, health aid, or better bowflex, or intake manifold that lets cars get a thousand miles to the gallon... Lets say everyone takes this widget and begins producing it like mad, and we all buy them.
Without a patent, and FDA/or some other safety org involved, what happens when the engine widget has a sudden habit of exploding at speed after a few years use, or the bowflex widget causes the bowflex to snap and break bones and necks....
Whatever...
Your loved one was just hit by a flaming car with said widget, do you sue the driver? Not his/her fault, do you sue the inventor, not his widget anymore. change the law so that you can do either or both, Goodby future widgets...
Patents are a record of achievement, and a financial incentive.
Without them, do you think we'd be posting a reply on a forum, thru a computer, using software...
Yes, after a while (reasonable, at least long enough for a decent income to be earned) things should fall into the public domain, but to eliminate the use is borderline retarded.