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The misuse of patent law by the oligarchs is one of the major things that is screwing up the world economy. The oligarch propagandist are always like, “Education, education, education is the way to help the lowly worker.” But then education in regards to information that is patented, “Oh no, you can’t use that.”
Patent law needs to be changed. On the one hand inventors need to be rewarded for their works to encourage research and development. On the other hand though, the patents should not be allowed to be used to maintain monopolies in the marketplace.
Basically when a new product uses patents held by other companies there should be a formula on how the profits from that product is distributed.
I would suggest that 25% of the price of every product go into a patent fund. Then the number of standing, active, patents used in that product should be counted including patents owned by the producer of that product. Then that 25% should be divided equally between all the owners of the patents, per patent, in that product.
This should save the over all economy money in stopping all the bullshit patent lawsuits.
It should bring down the price of products by companies like Apple that abuse the patent system. [opinion]
It should bring down the price of meds but at the same time not stop research and development.
It should help small garage / ma pa businesses grow by protecting against lawsuits and government raids orchestrated by the oligarchs such as against flea markets.
Note that businesses would still be allowed to protect their brands on patented merchandise. Businesses that produce a similar product using patents owned by the other company would have a different branded product but to benefit of consumer could say “similar to ????.”