Intellectual Property: A Simple Example

by on July 21, 2010 @ 10:27 am · 0 comments

in IP Law

Patents are voicing an idea and then telling everyone else they can’t use that idea without licensing it. For example, I might find a better way to fish and then prevent anyone who saw me use that new technique from employing it themselves. The fact that I had a new idea doesn’t give me the right to prevent others from arranging their property in the configuration they desire.

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