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12 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
After watching "Counterfeiting Kills Economies (And Helps Them Too)"

I would like to see a fight:

— Companies innovating too fast for patents to be useful for them

vs

— Companies with business models relying on patents to impede competitors' innovation
imdb.com/title/tt961786…
The documentary is coming from Amazon, which has an "interesting" relationship with intelectual property

As more companies join the debate, data about the impact of patents on innovation and economies should be presented, to defend each case
Theory and practice do not always match, and the reality is dynamic. What was true one century ago may not be true now. The system needs maintenance

For example, Tesla applies the open source philosophy to their patents, and they seem to be doing well
tesla.com/en_IE/blog/all…
IMHO, patents are an unnecessary evil that stifles innovation even within the company producing the patents, by shifting attention and resources from research to legal activities

But I have no data. I write mainly to provide a context for the bag of links
twitter.com/i/events/95927…
Some patents are the ultimate cookie licking 🍪👅

How to tell the difference between legitimate work protection and cookie licking?

Number of patents per year per author may be a good heuristic to measure how much alleged work each of them protects

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