Patent Crisis And The Age Of Open Source
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We live in an age when success of innovation is mixed with unprecedented failures. On one hand we’re reinventing the web, fighting for a greener future and building genomix. On the other there are housing bubbles, credit crises and war.
The technology patent crisis is important to our future. For decades the patent law served its purpose. Inventors used copyrights, trademarks and patents to protect their work and launch their innovations. But today’s technology intellectual property system is a failure – unable to keep up with the speed of innovation, it’s fallen apart.
The result? We live in an age of open source ideas. We freely borrow and build on each other’s solutions. At first glance this may seem fine, but there are important consequences that may change the way we innovate. What happens when a big company copies a startup? What happens when dozens of startups copy each other? Read more.
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