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		rhinoceraptor on Nov 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won There's a big difference between legal and ethical. And it's not creating liquidity in the market for inventions. It's creating liquidity in state-sanctioned and enforced monopoly rights of inventions.

egdod on Nov 6, 2019 [–]

Without that monopoly, there wouldn’t be much of a market for inventions.

ric2b on Nov 7, 2019 | [–]

Of course there would, there's a lot of money to be made from inventing something, even without a patent.

And the biggest companies in the world aren't the biggest because they have patent protected monopolies.

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