No patents = more investment in research and development?

Written on March 30, 2009 by nipper in Info For Inventors, Lawsuits/Laws/Rules
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Reading:  the Patentability blog on “Energy Secretary: Drop IP Protection To Promote Greentech?“  (by the way…great new blog, worth following).

Is there any evidence (perhaps in another country’s IP system) that taking away (or not giving in the first place) patent rights somehow encourages development of technology?

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2 Responses to No patents = more investment in research and development?
  1. SoCalIP attorney
    March 31, 2009 | 7:47 am

    Sure there is evidence for what you desire to show. But the overwhelming majority of evidence points in the other direction. Of course it is not the sole impetus for invention, but patents help. The problem with the slow development in greentech is that it hasn’t reached cost effectiveness. A gallon of gas only can do so much work. It will never take you to the moon. Patience and diligence is the answer to more greentech solutions. The system is not the problem. Those who wish to remake the system expecting technology to magically pop out of a remade system are the problem.

  2. Lawrence B. Ebert
    April 1, 2009 | 11:11 pm

    Of “not giving patents in the first place, see discussion on IPBiz:

    http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2007/03/techdirt-takes-on-ip-lawyer.html