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Patents and Comments

The comments on “Patents and Innovation” and “New Products, Emerging from Chaos” have been really good. I want to draw your attention to them, because I’m impressed at how much has been added.

I’m really enjoying the feedback, and the ability to continue a thread that’s emerged from a comment. I’m also curious what I can do to encourage more comments and interaction?

[Update: Speaking of patents, Rob Sama [http://samablog.robsama.com/ no longer works] sent me a link to a Wall St Journal editorial that was published this morning, entitled “Patently Absurd:” [link to http://online.wsj.com/wsjgate?subURI=%2Farticle%2FSB114117826666886050-email.html&nonsubURI=%2Farticle_email%2FSB114117826666886050-lMyQjAxMDE2NDAxMTEwNzE4Wj.html no longer works]

The bitter legal fight over BlackBerry patents may soon inconvenience millions of users of that handheld email device. But that’s nothing compared to the damage that a broken U.S. patent system is doing to the larger American economy.]

(Wright Bros patent #831, 393 from First to Fly {link to http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/Wright%20Story/politics.htm no longer works}.)

Originally published by adam on 1 Mar 2006
Last modified on 22 Aug 2023
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