You’re telling me we could have more diverse innovation that catered to the needs of individuals if we allowed people to create tools that help them and their neighbors instead of saying “some guy decided a hundred years ago, on the other side of the planet, that this is what this tool looked like. If you call something else by this name we’ll sue you and if you call something that looks like this something else we’ll sue you for that too”?
Can you imagine how much harder it would be to be a corrupt asshole if instead of screwing over millions unnamed people, you had to go and look all 30 of the relevant people in your life in the face and go “I wanna suck the money out of you by becoming the sole proprietor of this tool”?
You’re telling me we could have more diverse innovation that catered to the needs of individuals if we allowed people to create tools that help them and their neighbors instead of saying “some guy decided a hundred years ago, on the other side of the planet, that this is what this tool looked like. If you call something else by this name we’ll sue you and if you call something that looks like this something else we’ll sue you for that too”?
No, because someone else will file for the exact same patent locally at the exact moment the law is invoked.
Can you imagine how much harder it would be to be a corrupt asshole if instead of screwing over millions unnamed people, you had to go and look all 30 of the relevant people in your life in the face and go “I wanna suck the money out of you by becoming the sole proprietor of this tool”?
The EU represents roughly 450 million people. I can hardly think of a patent that might affect only 30 people, given this number.
Also, psychopaths exist on either side of the Atlantic.
That’s kind of part of my point. Make it even more local than the EU. Make it local to your town or even smaller