The Ledger
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Masnick: Having no patent system would be better than the current system
“I might feel pretty strongly that no patent system would probably be better than the patent system that we have today.”
China reduced prison sentences for inmates who filed patents
“China was incentivizing people in their prisons that they would give them shorter prison sentences if they were able to file patents.”
Masnick: Adopting traditional corporate lobbying would mark a tech industry failure
“I think, you know, one of the things, you know, if it turns out that the tech industry, that the answer for them on policy questions is to build up a giant lobbying system, Set up an apparatus in the nature of like the telcos and the pharmaceuticals and a numb…”