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[-] grandma@sh.itjust.works 101 points 3 days ago

Patents shouldn't be valid for more than 5 years imo. If you can't make a large enough profit from your idea in 5 years maybe it wasn't that good or original.

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

Disagree. Look at Sawstop. It took years to even get to the patent filing phase. Then he tried to get companies to adopt it. They didn't. So he spent years building a company and manufacturing base to support it. By the time he finally got things into stores and had a chance to pay back his investment the patent would have expired under your idea. There would have been zero incentive to do all that investment and the technology would have never become available.

Your five year rule would harm anyone not already extremely wealthy. It would further incentivize corporations to maintain control over markets. It would also create a situation where companies would be trying to recoup all their investment costs in that 5 year period which would result in extremely high prices. Like the pharma companies on steroids charging a 5000% markup.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

So I'd never heard of sawstop so I looked it up.

Why couldn't he get anyone interested in using that? It's brilliant.

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

If one company took it up it would have created a war in the industry. Everyone decided to play it safe with business as usual. Because companies don't care about anything other than profit.

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