[pp.int.general] Protection for inventors

[Rodrigo Pereira]

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/11/1039379881466.html

2009/9/2 Chris Lockie <chris at lockie.org>

> Just been watching this story on the news:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8232130.stm
>
> I find myself surprised at how much this story has confused me. On the one
> hand I am obviously oppsed to the insane use of patent law if certain
> fields, medicine being the obvious example, but on the other hand I wonder
> how best a small inventor such as Trevor Bayliss could protect his ideas
> from large companies who can copy them without breaking any criminal law and
> then deploy a battery of lawyers to minimise damages from a civil suit.
>
> Is the answer simply to redefine what can and cannot be patented, or to
> abandon the patent system and introduce a better way to protect ideas from
> unfair exploitation by others?
>
> CL.
>
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