Posted on 01/15/2024 8:47:54 AM PST by Red Badger
Ping!......................
Right out of Atlas Shrugged.............I wish they’d stop using it as a Guide Book!.................
They’re implementing Directive 10-289....
Ayn Rand calls it right again.
Directive 10-289:
Point Three. All patents and copyrights, pertaining to any devices, inventions, formulas, processes and works of any nature whatsoever, shall be turned over to the nation as a patriotic emergency gift by means of Gift Certificates to be signed voluntarily by the owners of all such patents and copyrights. The Unification Board shall then license the use of such patents and copyrights to all applicants, equally and without discrimination, for the purpose of eliminating monopolistic practices, discarding obsolete products and making the best available to the whole nation. No trademarks, brand names or copyrighted titles shall be used. Every formerly patented product shall be known by a new name and sold by all manufacturers under the same name, such name to be selected by the Unification Board. All private trademarks and brand names are hereby abolished.
this is kind of confusing.
if we that taxpayer paid for the research that created a patentable product, why should the taxpayer not get some benifit ?
Baby steps Bob.
It’s that weasel word ‘partially’.........................
Who'd have think that Democrat-Commie-Socialist-AHOLES would use Atlas Shrugged as a manual to destroy the country?
Read it 4x over the last 20'ish years. Maybe it's time for another read-through to see if I've missed anything that the DummyCraps are going to try next.
My 2 cents:
1) The govt shouldn’t have been funding the research to begin with.
2) If the govt does fund it then the citizens own at least a portion of the resulting patents. I would recommend a percentage based on the amount the govt provided vs what was privately funded.
3) The result of the universities owning these patents has resulted in grossly inflated monetary benefit to the universities that should have been used to offset tuition - instead tuitions have continued to grow multiple times above the inflation rate and university administration staffing has become inflated with a bunch of non-value adders. (Hell tuition should be free based on the amount some of these schools have made).
“the so-called “march-in” clause of 1980’s bipartisan Bayh-Dole Act. This would empower Uncle Sam to capture and control patents that fully or partially were funded with federal research grants, if Washington bureaucrats disliked the market prices or rollout speeds of their ensuing technologies.”
The onslaught continues.
Why would they go to all that trouble? They will just do what they have been doing. Stop enforcing the law and enjoy watching whiners complain to the deaf ear of the legacy media.
Harvard has a $65 BILLION EMDOWMENT and still begs for more as the tuition rises even higher.................
It’s about power. It’s about rubbing people’s faces in it.
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MESSAGE: Does the Biden govt ever focus on initiatives that benefit taxpayers? This astounding Biden patent steal initiative illustrates what is wrong with so much of the Biden administration: It’s rife w/ people who lack the mental capacity to handle their job.
I still have my copy.
Corporate welfare is still welfare.
“Google’s pioneering search algorithm”
Didn’t Google steal that fair and square? I always thought the government would step in sometime.
All government money comes with strings attached.......................
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