Ping!......................
Right out of Atlas Shrugged.............I wish they’d stop using it as a Guide Book!.................
They’re implementing Directive 10-289....
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 ?
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.
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.
we also begged the saudis to pump more oil after Biden insulted them
biden/obama is a sick and mindless tyrant who wants to kill the golden goose!!
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.