[SeeSharp]

Patent trolls are bad, but practicing patent holders are worse. The troll doesn’t want to put you out of business. He just wants a piece of your action. It’s like a tax. It’s those patent holders who actually make a patented item that want to shut down every competing producer. They are by far the bigger drain on the economy.

[Axenolith]

Given that nothing ever good comes out of the house and congress the last 25+ years, I wait with baited breath to learn the bad side of this, the “Oh, and we’ll host all our patents on Chinese servers now” sub part...

[adorno]

Without patents, what incentives would there be for people to come up with ideas and innovations and new products?

Without patent protections, does anybody believe that we would be as technologically advanced as we are now? We might still be in the middle-ages, though we wouldn't know what we had missed.

[Impy]

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