Masnick: Having no patent system would be better than the current system
Mike Masnick · a16z Podcast | A Whirlwind Tour of Policy Issues in Tech · Jan 2, 2019 · at 24:53
Mike Masnick, founder of Techdirt, expresses his stance on software patent reform and the flaws of the existing legal framework.
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“I might feel pretty strongly that no patent system would probably be better than the patent system that we have today.”
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