http://www.legalgist.com/counterarguments-patent-protection Legal Questions and Answers Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:06:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.legalgist.com/counterarguments-patent-protection/comment-page-1#comment-89 Dale B. Halling Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:04:15 +0000 http://www.legalgist.com/?p=7642#comment-89 Yes I am a patent attorney. A number of arguments have been advanced against the patent system, including those in the previous post. One argument against patents not discussed above is the Libertarian theory that intellectual property is not property. This theory states that property is based on premise of “Scarcity” and ideas are not subject to scarcity. For more information, from a contrary point of view see my posts Scarcity – Does it Prove Intellectual Property is Unjustified? http://hallingblog.com/2009/06/22/scarcity-–-does-it-prove-intellectual-property-is-unjustified/ Scarcity and Intellectual Property: Empirical Evidence for Invention http://hallingblog.com/2009/06/25/scarcity-and-intellectual-property-empirical-evidence-for-inventions/ Scarcity and Intellectual Property: Empirical Evidence of Adoption/Distribution of Technology http://hallingblog.com/2009/06/25/scarcity-and-intellectual-property-empirical-evidence-of-adoptiondistribution-of-technology/ Yes I am a patent attorney. A number of arguments have been advanced against the patent system, including those in the previous post. One argument against patents not discussed above is the Libertarian theory that intellectual property is not property. This theory states that property is based on premise of “Scarcity” and ideas are not subject to scarcity. For more information, from a contrary point of view see my posts Scarcity – Does it Prove Intellectual Property is Unjustified? http://hallingblog.com/2009/06/22/scarcity-–-does-it-prove-intellectual-property-is-unjustified/
Scarcity and Intellectual Property: Empirical Evidence for Invention http://hallingblog.com/2009/06/25/scarcity-and-intellectual-property-empirical-evidence-for-inventions/
Scarcity and Intellectual Property: Empirical Evidence of Adoption/Distribution of Technology http://hallingblog.com/2009/06/25/scarcity-and-intellectual-property-empirical-evidence-of-adoptiondistribution-of-technology/

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