I can't believe this would be my last post for this class!
For my last post, I would like to talk about what I learned in this class.
I learned a lot of things about patent: what it is, what types there are, how it is filed, how long it takes to be filed, the patent trolls, patent wars, and progressing patent reform policies. Yet, as I learned a lot of things about patents, I realized the importance of patent and questioned myself "why patent?"
Patents are inventions, part of Intellectual Property, which is a legal way to protect all the creations of human mind. All the things we learned in the class has to be linked back to the origin of patent. As there are patents, inventions are protected and cannot be commercially made, used, distributed, or sold without the consent of the creator or patentee. First, patents provide incentives to the individuals, in particular, the creators receive financial reward and recognition for their creativity. Second, the quality of human life can be enhanced through new creations. Third, there can occur technological development through protection that stimulates research. Fourth, it enables the inventors to recoup their investment for the money and time spent developing the ideas. Finally, the use of patent documents enables future researchers not to re-invent the creations.
As stated, I really learned a lot about patents through this course, but what I want to emphasize the most is the importance of patents. Once we fully understand the presence of patents, we can easily learn and apply the knowledge we learned in this class.
Hi Tiffany, I can’t believe this class is reaching an end as well! I think you did a great job listing the advantages of the patents. It is important to have patents because inventing is costly and we want to give the inventors exclusive rights to incentivize them to invent more. However, patent is not without disadvantages. The first assignment that we did for this class and the TedTalk speaker all point out that all inventions are remixing. This means that if we issue too much patents, we can stall invention by making inventing expensive. I think you can further improve your post by mention the disadvantages of the patents and how we can strike a balance between having too much versus having too little patents. Overall, great job!
ReplyDeleteHi Tiffany,
ReplyDeleteGreat overall summary of our class' learnings. The 5 things you listed are definitely very true. Personally, I really found value in discovering about patent's disadvantages and shortcomings. I remember in one of the TED talks that open source programs tend to have better development because more people are involved and are all working together towards bettering a common product. I thought this was a very interesting discussion because it counters the idea that patents create innovation.
Hi Tiffany, I really liked your blog post and found it interesting because you concretely listed out the benefits of having a patent and in doing so really made the knowledge behind knowing how the patent system works obviously valuable. However, there is only one small thing that I disagree with in your comment, "Patents are inventions, part of Intellectual Property, which is a legal way to protect all the creations of human mind." While a lot of things are patentable, there are still some things which are not. Take for example a computer program, and while Professor Lavian said it was possible to embed such a program in a physical system, the code itself is extremely hard/impossible to patent. Besides from this detail, excellent job!
ReplyDeleteHi Tiffany,
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you summarized the class. Your post has a nice flow that is easy to follow. It was nice to highlight the shortcomings of patents in your post as well. Like many other public systems, there are flaws that keep it from being perfect. Although in theory the intent was meant to credit those who are deserving and progress technology or knowledge, there are ways to exploit the system. Good job for pointing this out! Would love to know your thoughts on exactly why you say patents are important near the end. Thanks!
Hi Tiffany! It's really been a long ride, and we came a very long way! I can't believe looking at how much we learned from this class. Now that we learned a lot about patents, I like how you ask the question, why? However, I would like you think of the duality of patents as well. While patents do provide incentives to the individuals, wherein creators receive financial reward and recognition for their creativity, what are some of the downsides? Would be curious to know!
ReplyDeleteHi Tiffany,
ReplyDeleteGreat job with this blog post! I think you did a really amazing job of being comprehensive and concise at the same time. I really like the structure of your post, and I also agree that we learned about the importance of patents through this class! We learned just how important patents are in relation to the discussion of intellectual property, and this directly related to our discussion of patent trolls and related topics. Overall, I commend your hard work and effort with these blog posts, and I look forward to seeing your final posts.
Best,
Anish
Hi Tiffany!
ReplyDeleteGreat post! The 5 points you mention about the benefits of patents are very true. I think that patents have a lot of benefits to them. But there are some drawbacks to them as well, as our other classmates pointed out above. When watching the TedX videos, we saw the speakers talk about open innovation and how that has been very beneficial in helping certain industries thrive. As Yi pointed out, most inventions are remixing. So the real question for the future that we should be asking ourselves is "What is the balance between protecting our technology for one company's benefit and limiting the growth of innovation, and adopting an open innovation model and allowing for a greater number of individuals to benefit from the new innovation that will take place?" I feel that when we realize this balance we will be able to further innovation at a faster rate than the rate it is currently at.