Alex Tabarrok Has a New Book
This is from an interview in The American:
The most important point is blindingly obvious yet ignored: not every innovation needs or deserves a 20-year patent. It’s crazy that one-click shopping or reverse auctions are granted the same 20-year monopoly rights as a pharmaceutical that took 15 years and a billion dollars to research and develop. Thus, I advocate creating classes of patents of say 20, 7, and 3 years. Shorter patents would be approved more quickly and with less investigation.
Full interview worth reading. Also check out his talk at TED, with this theme: One idea. One World. One Market.
Sounds interesting.
I recall when the patent for one-click online shopping was granted. Analysts pointed out that was sort of like granting a patent on a drive-through window.
Yeah, 20 years is probably too long for most innovations.
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