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Sep 14, 2016 - 04:40 PM
Good. I think particularly for startups, having patented capabilities allow you to acknowledge your innovation and effectively play defense against bigger players.
Oct 04, 2016 - 01:32 PM
Largely evil. I think if you do something truly novel you deserve protection. A lot of stuff that are patents are what we call process patents which are pretty evil.
Oct 17, 2016 - 11:21 AM
Good. But I think they're overused and need to be limited, but good overall to protecting the nation.
Oct 17, 2016 - 11:21 AM
Generally evil. But I think in some circumstances they can make sense.
Nov 12, 2016 - 02:41 PM
Mostly evil. Partly good, but it's hard to find a great examples where it helps the people who are actually innovating and bringing prowess to market and a lot more examples where it's just a patent troll who really brought patents in order to extort people.
May 26, 2017 - 07:39 PM
Evil. Software is already protected by copyright; patents limit progress by forcing developers to risk a minefield of related products, and hurt consumers by preventing similar interfaces.
Aug 13, 2017 - 05:58 PM
Software patent, evil. I think most software is ingenious unless it's being used offensively, it's a pretty big problem in our industry.
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