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Originally Posted by DaWei
I grant you that, and I mentioned the problems in my post. Denigrating a concept because its implementation has become flawed is somewhat akin to throwing the baby out with the bath water. There is a high probability that if you should bust your ass over a truly new idea that offers rewarding commercial success, you will wish you could patent it.
All good ideas are intellectual property -- what else would they be? I'll give you credit for rational, if perhaps not all-pervasive, thought and expression, at least. Far too many of the detractors are just wind chimes blowing in the breeze of blather.
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Much of that is very true (not the blather part
). However, like I said I am refering to the current state of the USPTO's (as that's the only country's patent and tm office I know of) policies on granting intellectual property patents. And, since we are on a programming forum, I reckoned that this patentable idea Solid Snake was wondering about would be related to programming or computers.
Not to detract from his possible discovery of a truely ingenious idea especially since I don't have the slightest what it is, but the likelihood that creating a patent for an idea that not many have the ability to understand or mentally develope themselves is
very slim.
The USPTO's current lack of qualification to judge ingenuity of pending IP patents is why, at this moment, people should be very wise and investigate the base of their IP patent before putting restrictions on its development by others. The USPTO needs to become more aware of the complex, yet increasingly accessible world of computer hardware and software (along with a few other related things).
The patent situation with regards to software/IP is more akin to having an unqualified teacher or boss. Patents are generally neccessary to initialise development, be it 'intellectual' or otherwise, but the ability to put a stranglehold on progress within the academia of any given field should be avoided at all costs.
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All good ideas are intellectual property -- what else would they be?
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My disagreement is not with whether or not good ideas are intellectual property (
all ideas are some form of property, in one way or another I'm sure), but with the genuineness of ideas that are filed for patent and subsequently granted.