Apple takes Lodsys patent fight to court

nobody owns any idea. that’s ridiculous. we all have the brain capacity to come up with things. the only question is, does it matter who comes up with it first? and my answer is no.

I respectfully disagree. If you come up with something new that hasn’t been on the market before, you should have some protection against others coming in and stealing it.

Otherwise big companies would just get bigger (because they came in and swiped your idea and had the capacity to make it cheaper than you), while the small up and comer would just get crushed.

Wow, you’re altruistic and naive.

you must be poor.  poor people always want everything to be free.  if you had an idea that helped you not be as poor as you sadly must be im sure you’d be thrilled if the next day someone copied the exact idea and caused you to be poor…..again………….like you so obviously are……….poor hippie.

@Tony How is it up there on that high horse? I hope you fall off and break your nose. How can you honestly talk down to someone because you *think* they might be poor? My opinion is a political one. It has nothing to do with my economic status (which you know nothing about). But you keep on attacking poor people, you piece of crap.

@Rick That’s a good point, but at the same time, if things were all open there would be much more competition. It wouldn’t really matter how much money a company has if there are 50 others making the same thing. I’m not saying that patents are completely bad. I’m just saying that they are abused and taken advantage of. And that ultimately hurts smaller companies that don’t have the resources to fund research and innovation. I think for the good of society as a whole, it would be better to have everything up for grabs. Look at what patents have done to our medical system. AIDS medication costs well over $1000/month. 

@Pendergast “Generic statement without anything to back it up. I disagree with you so I’ll call you naive.” /mocking Pendergast

@tn7871 Its absolutely fantastic up here!  Dude!  You should TOTALLY give it a shot……..oh wait………………can you not afford a high horse?  poor hippie

@Tony Morally bankrupted person. There is a special place in hell for people like you. You *may* get ahead in life, but you won’t actually accomplish anything. You can’t truly be happy while looking down on other people. It’s really a shame. I’ll be over here loving others regardless of their race, gender, economic status, etc. Wish you could join. P.S. You still don’t know anything about me or how much money I may or may not have.

@tn7871 I wasn’t making a generic statement. It would be wonderful if all ideas were open. But you’re being altruistic. It’s like believing in capitalism without any rules. You know the result? Standard Oil.

Lack of regulation in the banking industry? Hmmm….

Lacking patents, big corporations would simply snap up good ideas without rewarding the inventor at all. Being huge conglomerates, economies of scale would mean that they could sell something cheaper than smaller companies ever could.

Patent laws need to be reformed, as they are currently too vague and facilitate patent trolls who never bring a product to market, similar to web domain squatters. But suggesting no patents would be better is naive.

@tn7871 the important thing to remember is that no matter what I type here, or whatever your rebuttals are…..you’re still going to be poor……a special kind of poor…………….hippie poor. 

Why invent something if someone else can come right along and just take what you thought up???  You end up with NOTHING!!!   There should be a reasonable Expiration Date.  Say 10 years.  There’s a lot of things though that should have never had a Patent.