Well, as an IP attorney, I'd say that most of your and his problem stems from the fact that you have no idea what a trademark is or does for you, or what a patent actually covers.
Things tend to make more sense when you understand how they work.
And your "the cure for cancer is patented" claim is just pure bs. Make it a different way than claimed in the patent, and you're not infringing. Also, why bother finding this sequence if you can't get paid for it? It took millions (usually billions, about 3 billion on average for drugs) to develop this bit of information. I can't name any investors off hand that would pay for that with expectation on investment being a whopping ZERO percent.
Monsanto and Diebold do a lot of R&D work. They employ engineers and discover/develop/invent new ideas and products. The other companies would love to do away with IP so that they could just steal the ideas of smaller companies without having to worry about penalties. You should check on the members of your "altruistic" groups. You have a bunch of commies and mult-national corporations in these anti patents groups like "The Coalition for Patent Fairness."
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Well, as an IP attorney, I'd say that most of your and his problem stems from the fact that you have no idea what a trademark is or does for you, or what a patent actually covers.
Things tend to make more sense when you understand how they work.
And your "the cure for cancer is patented" claim is just pure bs. Make it a different way than claimed in the patent, and you're not infringing. Also, why bother finding this sequence if you can't get paid for it? It took millions (usually billions, about 3 billion on average for drugs) to develop this bit of information. I can't name any investors off hand that would pay for that with expectation on investment being a whopping ZERO percent.
Monsanto and Diebold do a lot of R&D work. They employ engineers and discover/develop/invent new ideas and products. The other companies would love to do away with IP so that they could just steal the ideas of smaller companies without having to worry about penalties. You should check on the members of your "altruistic" groups. You have a bunch of commies and mult-national corporations in these anti patents groups like "The Coalition for Patent Fairness."