Saturday, December 15, 2012

Are Software patents a tax on innovation?

Another good episode from Planet Money that is making me rethink my opposition to government subsidies to NPR.  Highlights a hold-up problem with software patents:

Big companies that should be focused on inventing the next great thing are instead spending billions of dollars buying up patents and suing each other. Small companies have to worry that someone with some random patent is going to sue them and shut them down.

2 comments:

  1. Nice post. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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  2. These things are future and the sooner we accept the better it is. I think we are always into great things, so I don’t know what next can come up, as a Forex trading I really love smart phones because that helps me do work from any corner of the world and also it is due to my broker OctaFX where they have got cTrader mobile platform which helps me working pretty well and allows me to be highly comfortable in working.

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