Markets for government granted rights to stop commerce -- in which governments themselves are major players, using government-granted rights to stop others from using government-granted rights to stop commerce...
![]()  | 
	
		Against Monopolydefending the right to innovateinnovation | 
	
		 Monopoly corrupts. Absolute monopoly corrupts absolutely.  | 
||
| 
		
		 Copyright Notice: We don't think much of copyright, so you can do what you want with the content on this blog. Of course we are hungry for publicity, so we would be pleased if you avoided plagiarism and gave us credit for what we have written. We encourage you not to impose copyright restrictions on your "derivative" works, but we won't try to stop you. For the legally or statist minded, you can consider yourself subject to a Creative Commons Attribution License.  | 
	
		 | 
	
		backThe Age of Disablement Brian Kahin Senior Fellow of the Computer and Communications Industry Association (members of the lobbying organization include Microsoft and Google, but apparently not Apple) gets it. Best quote? Noting that governments now own patents they themselves issue:
  Markets for government granted rights to stop commerce -- in which governments themselves are major players, using government-granted rights to stop others from using government-granted rights to stop commerce... [Posted at 08/12/2011 09:01 AM by David K. Levine on Innovation  CommentsSubmit Comment | 
	
		 | 
	
		 
		 
		 
		 
		Most Recent Comments A Texas Tale of Intellectual Property Litigation (A Watering Hole Patent Trolls) Aunque suena insignificante, los números son alarmantes y nos demuestran que no es tan mínimo como    at 06/29/2022 08:48 AM by Abogado de Accidente de Carro en Huntington Park 
  at 11/27/2021 05:53 PM by Nobody 
  at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:57 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:47 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:47 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:42 PM by Anonymous 
  at 01/06/2021 06:42 PM by Anonymous 
 |