i really hate these smooth transitions, i wish there would be more of a break - or at least a funny transition like linus tech tips sometimes does (e.g. he talks about something completely different and says "and that's why you need ________" )
Easy fix for patent trolls: require patents to be used in an actual product under the risk of invalidating them, just like you have to use trademarks in, well, trade if you don't want to lose them.
Major issue with this is that patents were initially designed to benefit engineers, inventors, and scientists who come up with new research. Patents are designed to allow them to profit off of their own discovery. With a patent, other companies that want to use their idea have to go through them, they don't need a product. Your idea breaks the entire point of patents.
@@KyleLi If they want to profit from the patent, they should make actual product using said patent. Then they wouldn't lose it and other companies won't profit out of it. Simple as that.
Suppose I'm that guy with the stick patent and I need to get around your "fix". I could just pick a stick from my backyard, put it up for sale on ebay, and now I've got an "actual product" and can get back to suing people within 5 minutes. The barrier your solution creates will probably be streamlined by companies that will pop up to offer "patent to demo product" services for the trolls.
@@alexisreal 1) That assumes all patent is immediately applicable, which is not the case. A new engine fan design might help improve efficiency, but unless you can also make new body designs, make better heat dissipating systems, you can't turn it into a product yet. 2) This only helps big companies that can churn out products really quick. If your implementation (which necessarily involves a lot of parties for materials, 3D printing, etc.) leaks your invention, a big company can churn out the product much quicker than you and file a patent for an invention you created.
Something that's often missing from arguments like these are how to improve the system without disposing of it entirely. Patents are critical to protect innovation, without a doubt. Manufacturing is always cheaper than R&D, and the start-up time to manufacture new items is shrinking. I don't think patents are bad, it's just the way they're implemented that's bad.
because you need to submit the patent in China too...most International companies submit patent in US because they are the most powerful country and has a very large market...
China installs malware on a lot of corporate and gov't electronics. China also doesn't care about American IP enforcement and reverse engineers lots of things anyway.
Google vs Uber lawsuit!? After uber paid the hefty fine, it was later discovered that Google's 53 out of the 56 patents are just rehashed copies of Velodyne's patents. lol
Good example for a patent troll is the following: In Germany, some years ago when black Friday wasn't really a thing there, some Chinese firm bought the name brand "Black Friday". So now every shop doing a black Friday promotion has to either pay that firm a fine or has to rename their sale to "Red Friday", "Black Week", "Black Weekend", etc. It's funny seeing the same company using the term black Friday in Sweden, but renaming it in Germany
The "Non obvious for anyone skilled in the trade" is the root of all patent problems. Why are so many dumb things awarded patents when many reference previous art upon which no non obvious improvement is achieved ? Trolls wouldn't be able to file patents if it patents were not given away. Companies wouldn't be able to sue each other for mundane features if they were not awarded patents for anything. I think patents are given away so easily because it's a big business for lawyers and patent office, so there's a lot of lobbying so things are not changed by politicians.
I think it would be best to keep patents to secure innovation, but with some major changes. 1) Patents should be annulled if the patentholder are not actively working towards getting it to market (parameters could be investments, people getting hired on the specific project and so on, depending on the industry) 2) Patents should expire faster (maybe 5 years, maybe depending on industry). To be clear this is thoughts based on the video, and has not been thought through. Still think it's better than today's patentsystem, and what would happen without patents completely.
@2:50 one of the few facts that I do know about Einstein, he did work in the patent office, which he did express was a source for many of his ideas / thats where he got alot of exposure to ideas/science
Man, Amazon is expensive compared to other markets. The shipping alone costs more than the product it self and it’s region locked. No wonder why Chinese markets will continue to dominate.
Actually came to my mind watching your second video analyst patent trolls. This people are like old school mafia, charging people so that they don’t hurt them.
You create amazing content, I teach english in Brazil, and I recommend all my students to watch your videos, they improve their english + learn useful things from you. Keep it up the amazing work!
In this regard, there is a truly amazing book called "Against Intellectual Monopoly". Freely available online btw. It totally changed my mind on the topic.
Similar to IP in music. People sampling and stealing, only clearing the sample when the know they're gonna make a bunch of money. Or just releasing it and settling when they get sued.
DON'T EVER CHANGE. Your pace and depth of knowledge and ability to explain and animations are all just perfect and you're my favorite UA-camr for it. Awesome job
I actually work within an industry that uses and needs patterns while also working closely with areas patents are a waste of time. The real issue with them - is they're far too broad, patents should be used only to target very specific products which need the push for innovation. I'm going to be blunt - the vast majority of software has basically no right to patents, trade secrets? Maybe. But patents? Not at all. The industry is too large and too many people work on it to restrict ideas to one company, ideas simply aren't unique - and the best ones will be thought of by multiple people because they're good ideas - but not some unique world-changing innovation, and they rarely take that much time to design and produce. On the other hand, if you compare it to say - designing a complicated chip or piece of machinery - it's fine to patent that particular design, those do take years of research and because they're so specific someone can make similar without being able to actually steal all your work. Even with that said I've never liked or trusted patents - they keep the best products expensive. I mean the main reason parmesan cheese is so damn expensive is only one company is legally allowed to produce it. I just don't trust patents not to be abused to make everything more expensive and while that matters less to me nowadays - that matters a whole lot more to the vast majority of people who can't afford it. Patents should be a lot, lot shorter - and companies should be allowed to take ideas IF they can produce it more efficiently and cheaply - because that in itself is a worthwhile innovation!
@@chiragpatel2423 Afraid so. ua-cam.com/video/ZgjWOo7IqQY/v-deo.html - is a video explaining why it's so expensive. But during it mentions that basically it's allowed to be produced in this one tiny part of Italy by this company - despite there being tonnes of 'fake' parmesan cheese - which to me implies it CAN be made elsewhere - they're just greedy and don't want them to because it'll force them to lower their prices.
Polymatter: spends 9 minutes talking about how patents aren’t effective Polymatter: compares patents to his sponsorship What are you trying to say about Dashlane, Polymatter?
I heard the deal with copyrights were to make it more profitable to create instead of retweet basically. But those we're only supposed to last about 20-30 years originally but Disney.
Very good video. The problem of criminally incompetent (or corrupt) patent examiners (you say "errors happen"; granting a patent to a stick cannot be called an error) is one side of the medal; justice system tuned so that the side with deeper pockets is virtually guaranteed to win is another. And the American system drags the world down with it.
Patent trolls are messed up, greedy people. Like someone has a patent for stick. Why would any government recognize these patents. I say down with "patent trolls".
Love the videos. They make me feel productive even when while procrastinating. Keep up the good work. To my fellow polies keep learning or procrastinating, it’s probably both
Just watched the add at the end because its so nice animated Keep doing this awesome videos! Every one of them is a masterpice! Greeting from Germany :)
I think a lot of people have already. Even on youtube. But that said, it has never been so simply explained. And perhaps more importantly, that information became acessible to you today. Congrats!!
@@Kay0Bot Or make songs that are like 5 seconds original sounds, 20 minutes of public domain songs like classical music, and then 5 seconds of original sounds again, and then copyright strike videos that use the public domain songs, as happened to a friend of mine.
On the Pharmaceutical innovation end you are exactly right about innovation. Trade secrets dont work in pharmaceuticals very well. When you’re looking at a chemical compound like a drug it’s pretty easy to analyze what it is made of, and it had to go through extensive FDA approval processes that document it pretty thoroughly. So yes, patent law leads to high prices for the first 20 years a drug exists, and yes, some people can’t afford it during that time period. However the drug would not be developed at all if it weren’t for patent law protecting it. So in the interest of getting new drugs we allow high prices for the first 20 years because new treatments save the most lives in the long run.
Though even in that sector, most new breakthroughs are made by public universities or are funded by charities. The pharma industry often only gets involved to file the patent and make the drugs.
@@Carewolf The funding generally also comes from private companies. Honestly, without patent system, the medical field would not be making as much breakthroughs. Patents are necessary. It just needs to have higher standards for patenting (aka a better system). You need to reward people for creativity and innovation, not punish them. The problem is, making that kind of situation is very difficult without trying to screw those innovators because everyone is trying to figure out ways to take advantage of the system.
@@2RosarioVampire Not for base research. But you would be right about the funding for getting products through approval, but base research is too risky for private businesses, so it done by charities and universities.
I remember a long time ago NPR had a documentary about patent trolls and they mentioned somebody patented the toasting of bread in 2000. I'm pretty sure people had been making toast for long before that. It goes to show what a joke the patent system is.
Great video! The intellectual property laws of our digitalized work are broken and this video explains why. I am very excited for the next video, because I also thought for a solution but I couldn’t come up with a convenient one. This channel is really great and thinks big!
There's actually a disincentive to search for prior patents concerning an idea, because if you then use the patent (even if it is worthless) you're seen as wilfully (rather than inadvertently) abusing the patent, which under US laws carries (I believe) triple damages. As a result, the patent laws wind up working against their supposed core aim of encouraging dissemination and use of prior art.
It’s funny that most people who support patents also claim to support the free market. I say let ideas run wild, let the best implementation win. Innovations should benefit everyone, not the first person to file the patent for it.
But like he said in the video, it’s much cheaper and easier to wait for someone else to invent something, and then just copy it. If a small company has a really good idea and wants to make it their main business, a large company could just come along, and take it. And because they are so much larger they can make it bigger, develop it more quickly, and give the small, original company, no chance to compete. You are effectively giving even more power to big companies, probably not something you want.
a patent doesn't prevent anyone from accessing the knowledge created or prevent them from improving, it just doesn't let anyone to just plain copy-pasting the ideas and commercializing them.
Small companies can still rise up with ideas that can be copied. Additionally, there's enough benefit from developing something since other people will get to market slower than the original creator.
Hanif Shakiba Instead we just let the small company get bought out and the big company uses their idea anyways. You’re describing the pyramid scheme known as capitalism. Not only that, your defending the idea that one company or person should be able to patent knowledge, which is wrong, imo.
How patents are supposed to work is to make sure a new idea doesn't get stolen by a competitor with more resources, but to eventually expire when the original creator made their money and new innovations are ready. Of course, companies have butchered this very simple process.
I got a degree in Geology but ended up a patent writer. I now write patents for a living. There is a lot of innovation going on but not always at the top companies
So basically you can sue anybody who either pushes/pulls any object or drops any objects or keep any object on a table Patents as mentioned in the video cannot be on natural laws
I'd say as the rate of advancement accelerates patent expiration date should get shorter and shorter. It's kind of difficult to explain in short youtube comment, and I have to desire to write long post about it, but right now new innovation can be exploited in 5-10 years and then it's either not relevant anymore OR it becomes so widespread that it's impossible to do any business without it. Compare it to early 20th century, - most patents probably won't be widespread until at least a decade has passed. It's just wasn't as relevant. I'd say in 2020s patents should have 3-7 years expiration. It'll boost economy and won't hurt innovation.
Companies can lose their IP if they don't protect it. By the same logic companies not actively using their patent solution should lose their rights to it.
You should file a patent for smooth transition to the sponsor part
@Nathaniel Dillard And Wendover. And HAI. And me because I don't have ad transitions, but then again I have no money so nope.
You'd bankrupt TierZoo
i really hate these smooth transitions, i wish there would be more of a break - or at least a funny transition like linus tech tips sometimes does (e.g. he talks about something completely different and says "and that's why you need ________" )
Michael Xz why is that so bad . He gets sponsored you get more videos . Everyone wins
@@bethanyeq Because the smooth transition makes you feel duped into the ad and invalidates the entire video.
In celebration of Black Friday, this video is 100% off.
OMG
This is a stupid deal. I hear reddit has gifs 110% off
LOLLLL
It actually costs 100 times more to watch. Get your facts correct!
lol
This explains why the patent for my machine gun that shoots nuclear bombs got denied.
Looool
Hahahahaha.
No, it's because for years I have been using one to kill unicorns.
You mean because it's too abstract?
Bill Peiman Unicorns are not real, Asshole.
Nice try, you lying sack of shit.
I'm just going to file a patent as "A device of any shape, size and design, used for doing something."
Slightly *too* vague, troll.
Lol
How's that patent going?
troll
troll
I never regret clicking on these videos
I never regret watching these videos.
Easy fix for patent trolls: require patents to be used in an actual product under the risk of invalidating them, just like you have to use trademarks in, well, trade if you don't want to lose them.
you should patent that solution
Major issue with this is that patents were initially designed to benefit engineers, inventors, and scientists who come up with new research. Patents are designed to allow them to profit off of their own discovery. With a patent, other companies that want to use their idea have to go through them, they don't need a product. Your idea breaks the entire point of patents.
@@KyleLi If they want to profit from the patent, they should make actual product using said patent. Then they wouldn't lose it and other companies won't profit out of it. Simple as that.
Suppose I'm that guy with the stick patent and I need to get around your "fix". I could just pick a stick from my backyard, put it up for sale on ebay, and now I've got an "actual product" and can get back to suing people within 5 minutes. The barrier your solution creates will probably be streamlined by companies that will pop up to offer "patent to demo product" services for the trolls.
Easier solution: ban and nullify all patents issued for software and software features.
China: *laugh in hidden*
How do you know whether they are trying to hide that? :')
@James R
Easy fix: make it illegal to have a patent that you wont use and should be super specific.
How would you track that? Someone could argue they're using their patent as part of a larger invention, and are still making said invention.
Make it so that you must already have a product before you can patent
But bro, forcing anyone to use something
They own (patent) lis quite undemocratic
@@alexisreal 1) That assumes all patent is immediately applicable, which is not the case. A new engine fan design might help improve efficiency, but unless you can also make new body designs, make better heat dissipating systems, you can't turn it into a product yet.
2) This only helps big companies that can churn out products really quick. If your implementation (which necessarily involves a lot of parties for materials, 3D printing, etc.) leaks your invention, a big company can churn out the product much quicker than you and file a patent for an invention you created.
9:59 length? dude respecc++
I think he doesn't want double the revenue since he has a sponsor
Khizer Hassan the video seems unmonitized anyway
@@aturtle4499 exactly, only videos above 10 min get ads.
Jorti1 boombox incorrect
Jorti1 boombox videos above 10 minutes get more ads. I was referring to the video not having any ads at all.
Something that's often missing from arguments like these are how to improve the system without disposing of it entirely. Patents are critical to protect innovation, without a doubt. Manufacturing is always cheaper than R&D, and the start-up time to manufacture new items is shrinking. I don't think patents are bad, it's just the way they're implemented that's bad.
You’ll like Part 2 then :)
@@PolyMatter Then I'm looking forward to it!
Patents are to product works which are easier to copy then they are to make.
@@bruhbruh4329 Yeah, that's true as long as you include R&D in your definition of "make". Every product worth anyone's money requires R&D
Finally someone who explains complicated stuff in a language I actually understand
English!
How can China steal patents so efficiently???
Make a video on that
because you need to submit the patent in China too...most International companies submit patent in US because they are the most powerful country and has a very large market...
China installs malware on a lot of corporate and gov't electronics. China also doesn't care about American IP enforcement and reverse engineers lots of things anyway.
Because India poops in the streets.
Becuase foreign firms have to partner with chinese firms to operate in china, so the chinese firm gets all the data and patented products.
Because the patent is public record...with schematics if it's some sort of device.
Google vs Uber lawsuit!?
After uber paid the hefty fine, it was later discovered that Google's 53 out of the 56 patents are just rehashed copies of Velodyne's patents. lol
Great informative video
Jeff Bezos vs Elon Musk, coming up next on eBay
when is the next video coming up?
Good example for a patent troll is the following:
In Germany, some years ago when black Friday wasn't really a thing there, some Chinese firm bought the name brand "Black Friday".
So now every shop doing a black Friday promotion has to either pay that firm a fine or has to rename their sale to "Red Friday", "Black Week", "Black Weekend", etc.
It's funny seeing the same company using the term black Friday in Sweden, but renaming it in Germany
Well, time to claim cells as my intellectual property and sue God.
Ahh, PolyMatter, alerting us to problems that we didn't even know existed. 10 million lives.
Keep getting the word out!
How fitting, The patent troll Oracle in the "most innovated companies"
The "Non obvious for anyone skilled in the trade" is the root of all patent problems. Why are so many dumb things awarded patents when many reference previous art upon which no non obvious improvement is achieved ? Trolls wouldn't be able to file patents if it patents were not given away. Companies wouldn't be able to sue each other for mundane features if they were not awarded patents for anything. I think patents are given away so easily because it's a big business for lawyers and patent office, so there's a lot of lobbying so things are not changed by politicians.
I think it would be best to keep patents to secure innovation, but with some major changes.
1) Patents should be annulled if the patentholder are not actively working towards getting it to market (parameters could be investments, people getting hired on the specific project and so on, depending on the industry)
2) Patents should expire faster (maybe 5 years, maybe depending on industry).
To be clear this is thoughts based on the video, and has not been thought through. Still think it's better than today's patentsystem, and what would happen without patents completely.
There should also be revenue and profit caps
@2:50
one of the few facts that I do know about Einstein,
he did work in the patent office,
which he did express was a source for many of his ideas / thats where he got alot of exposure to ideas/science
Thanks for the legal advice.
Man, Amazon is expensive compared to other markets. The shipping alone costs more than the product it self and it’s region locked.
No wonder why Chinese markets will continue to dominate.
Actually came to my mind watching your second video analyst patent trolls. This people are like old school mafia, charging people so that they don’t hurt them.
Your videos are ridiculously enjoyable and well made. You deserve every bit of attention you get.
Amazon was soooo cheap back in the day. Its different now. I actually started going out again due to it.
You create amazing content, I teach english in Brazil, and I recommend all my students to watch your videos, they improve their english + learn useful things from you. Keep it up the amazing work!
Exactly when I was missing updates from your channel you post this. Good content once again. Thank you
In this regard, there is a truly amazing book called "Against Intellectual Monopoly". Freely available online btw. It totally changed my mind on the topic.
Just had a seminar and lecture on this. Cheers man
9:59 video length
much respect
Similar to IP in music. People sampling and stealing, only clearing the sample when the know they're gonna make a bunch of money. Or just releasing it and settling when they get sued.
I haven't seen such a wronged game since politics has been invented.😱🙈
Burn
do you do something else than watching youtube videos just before I do? xD
you are often top comment but dont produce much of quality
you have a very big smile
you should patent it
Never clicked on a video to make an overused joke so fast
Nice 😂
It better be a Bezos joke.
DON'T EVER CHANGE. Your pace and depth of knowledge and ability to explain and animations are all just perfect and you're my favorite UA-camr for it. Awesome job
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I actually work within an industry that uses and needs patterns while also working closely with areas patents are a waste of time. The real issue with them - is they're far too broad, patents should be used only to target very specific products which need the push for innovation.
I'm going to be blunt - the vast majority of software has basically no right to patents, trade secrets? Maybe. But patents? Not at all. The industry is too large and too many people work on it to restrict ideas to one company, ideas simply aren't unique - and the best ones will be thought of by multiple people because they're good ideas - but not some unique world-changing innovation, and they rarely take that much time to design and produce.
On the other hand, if you compare it to say - designing a complicated chip or piece of machinery - it's fine to patent that particular design, those do take years of research and because they're so specific someone can make similar without being able to actually steal all your work.
Even with that said I've never liked or trusted patents - they keep the best products expensive. I mean the main reason parmesan cheese is so damn expensive is only one company is legally allowed to produce it. I just don't trust patents not to be abused to make everything more expensive and while that matters less to me nowadays - that matters a whole lot more to the vast majority of people who can't afford it.
Patents should be a lot, lot shorter - and companies should be allowed to take ideas IF they can produce it more efficiently and cheaply - because that in itself is a worthwhile innovation!
graveeking are you serious about Parmesan cheese?
@@chiragpatel2423
Afraid so. ua-cam.com/video/ZgjWOo7IqQY/v-deo.html - is a video explaining why it's so expensive.
But during it mentions that basically it's allowed to be produced in this one tiny part of Italy by this company - despite there being tonnes of 'fake' parmesan cheese - which to me implies it CAN be made elsewhere - they're just greedy and don't want them to because it'll force them to lower their prices.
graveeking thanks for the video
@@graveeking That's not a patent. It's a naming restriction based on the location of production. Like champagne
Polymatter: spends 9 minutes talking about how patents aren’t effective
Polymatter: compares patents to his sponsorship
What are you trying to say about Dashlane, Polymatter?
I heard the deal with copyrights were to make it more profitable to create instead of retweet basically. But those we're only supposed to last about 20-30 years originally but Disney.
Nice explaining, i can really see the effort you put into this video
Very good video. The problem of criminally incompetent (or corrupt) patent examiners (you say "errors happen"; granting a patent to a stick cannot be called an error) is one side of the medal; justice system tuned so that the side with deeper pockets is virtually guaranteed to win is another. And the American system drags the world down with it.
Great video as always! Glad I subbed!
You deserve more recognition solely for the way you present information and market sponsors. I LOVE YOU MAN.
Patent trolls are messed up, greedy people. Like someone has a patent for stick. Why would any government recognize these patents. I say down with "patent trolls".
please make the next video as soon as possible... I can't wait to your suggested solution
lol, nice re-use of the stick image for the carrot dangle.
When you've learned more from this channel than school
Great content Polymatter!
Love the videos. They make me feel productive even when while procrastinating. Keep up the good work. To my fellow polies keep learning or procrastinating, it’s probably both
Honestly one of the best channels
8:55 «There s a solution but that's the topic of the next video»
Next video's title: «WHY COMMUNISM IS THE BEST»
Just watched the add at the end because its so nice animated
Keep doing this awesome videos! Every one of them is a masterpice!
Greeting from Germany :)
I am amazed that your channel isn't way bigger than it currently is
WTF how come no one talked about this until now?
pretty sure John Oliver has
I think a lot of people have already. Even on youtube.
But that said, it has never been so simply explained. And perhaps more importantly, that information became acessible to you today. Congrats!!
These are the same people who would copystrike UA-cam videos on "behalf" of "insert original creator" but keep all the profits for themselves.
@@Kay0Bot Or make songs that are like 5 seconds original sounds, 20 minutes of public domain songs like classical music, and then 5 seconds of original sounds again, and then copyright strike videos that use the public domain songs, as happened to a friend of mine.
@@aurora5481 Glad to know the practice is still strong today.
On the Pharmaceutical innovation end you are exactly right about innovation.
Trade secrets dont work in pharmaceuticals very well. When you’re looking at a chemical compound like a drug it’s pretty easy to analyze what it is made of, and it had to go through extensive FDA approval processes that document it pretty thoroughly.
So yes, patent law leads to high prices for the first 20 years a drug exists, and yes, some people can’t afford it during that time period. However the drug would not be developed at all if it weren’t for patent law protecting it. So in the interest of getting new drugs we allow high prices for the first 20 years because new treatments save the most lives in the long run.
Though even in that sector, most new breakthroughs are made by public universities or are funded by charities. The pharma industry often only gets involved to file the patent and make the drugs.
@@Carewolf The funding generally also comes from private companies. Honestly, without patent system, the medical field would not be making as much breakthroughs.
Patents are necessary. It just needs to have higher standards for patenting (aka a better system).
You need to reward people for creativity and innovation, not punish them. The problem is, making that kind of situation is very difficult without trying to screw those innovators because everyone is trying to figure out ways to take advantage of the system.
@@2RosarioVampire Not for base research. But you would be right about the funding for getting products through approval, but base research is too risky for private businesses, so it done by charities and universities.
I remember a long time ago NPR had a documentary about patent trolls and they mentioned somebody patented the toasting of bread in 2000. I'm pretty sure people had been making toast for long before that. It goes to show what a joke the patent system is.
We have all used vague descriptions when arguing to win easily
It is crazy how informative these videos are sometimes.
So a troll buys or invents a patent in hopes of going out and suing someone else for using THE idea. What a great job and contribution to society.
Awesome topic....please continue the topic
Another brilliant video, can’t wait to see the next one
Great video! The intellectual property laws of our digitalized work are broken and this video explains why.
I am very excited for the next video, because I also thought for a solution but I couldn’t come up with a convenient one. This channel is really great and thinks big!
Awesome job as usual. I love your videos, mate.
The Everything Store by Brad Stone covered this pretty well in his book. I also like this in video form!
Polymatter always come in clutch
Ebay had the Buy It Now option sooner than Amazon had. XD
There's actually a disincentive to search for prior patents concerning an idea, because if you then use the patent (even if it is worthless) you're seen as wilfully (rather than inadvertently) abusing the patent, which under US laws carries (I believe) triple damages. As a result, the patent laws wind up working against their supposed core aim of encouraging dissemination and use of prior art.
Another excellent video!
It’s funny that most people who support patents also claim to support the free market. I say let ideas run wild, let the best implementation win. Innovations should benefit everyone, not the first person to file the patent for it.
But like he said in the video, it’s much cheaper and easier to wait for someone else to invent something, and then just copy it.
If a small company has a really good idea and wants to make it their main business, a large company could just come along, and take it. And because they are so much larger they can make it bigger, develop it more quickly, and give the small, original company, no chance to compete.
You are effectively giving even more power to big companies, probably not something you want.
a patent doesn't prevent anyone from accessing the knowledge created or prevent them from improving, it just doesn't let anyone to just plain copy-pasting the ideas and commercializing them.
Small companies can still rise up with ideas that can be copied. Additionally, there's enough benefit from developing something since other people will get to market slower than the original creator.
Hanif Shakiba Instead we just let the small company get bought out and the big company uses their idea anyways. You’re describing the pyramid scheme known as capitalism. Not only that, your defending the idea that one company or person should be able to patent knowledge, which is wrong, imo.
Sounds like China to me. LOL.
I can't believe you use Screenflow to edit these vids. Your animation skills are seriously astounding
Great job. Really learned a lot
That segue was smooth af.
How patents are supposed to work is to make sure a new idea doesn't get stolen by a competitor with more resources, but to eventually expire when the original creator made their money and new innovations are ready.
Of course, companies have butchered this very simple process.
Definitely can't wait for the next video. Your videos are awesome
I love your vids because there so well made and contain interesting material that I enjoy
Nitpick: "Nobody hardly uses" should be "Hardly anybody uses"
Great quality video thanks!
i thought you were going to say "and as patents protect companies, todays sponsor protects me from starving" XDDDDDD
funny thing about that research is its mostly publicly funded not paid for by the private companys who simply buy the reshearch
bruh when he said "something no one uses any more" and the meeting invite notification showed up i got scared - coronavirus
The Tragedy of the Commons is truly the most well-named thing in economic theory.
Fantastic video!!!!! Thank you for the great video!!!
4:21 I thought you said someone had a patent for that branch? You can use it!
Mark Cuban was even complaining about patents on shark tank. Guess they really have gone too far with a lot of these.
Stephen N. Kinsella's essay "Against Intellectual Property" provides a sound argument for why Intellectual Property Rights should not exist
I got a degree in Geology but ended up a patent writer. I now write patents for a living. There is a lot of innovation going on but not always at the top companies
Screw this
*_I'm patenting Newton's Laws_*
Screw Newton’s Laws
Screw Newton
**Pffff**
Screw gravity
*flies away*
So basically you can sue anybody who either pushes/pulls any object or drops any objects or keep any object on a table
Patents as mentioned in the video cannot be on natural laws
Love the videos!
What software do you use to make your video slides?
This was a very interesting video and you clearly put a lot of research into it. I’m excited to see what you have to say in the next video.
Mustard + Polymatter the same day? Woah
OMG so exited for the next video. Tough problem to solve
I'd say as the rate of advancement accelerates patent expiration date should get shorter and shorter.
It's kind of difficult to explain in short youtube comment, and I have to desire to write long post about it, but right now new innovation can be exploited in 5-10 years and then it's either not relevant anymore OR it becomes so widespread that it's impossible to do any business without it.
Compare it to early 20th century, - most patents probably won't be widespread until at least a decade has passed. It's just wasn't as relevant.
I'd say in 2020s patents should have 3-7 years expiration. It'll boost economy and won't hurt innovation.
In the 1970s a patent was issued for a "headlight" on an electric carving knife. One level of pointlessness layered on top of another.
Pokemon Company International are like copyright trolls, complete as*h***s
Companies can lose their IP if they don't protect it. By the same logic companies not actively using their patent solution should lose their rights to it.
I am unincentivized to share my idea by patenting it.
Awesome video as always
Reminds me also of the Star Wars-Lucas production's patents
I guess cgpgrey made it.
Patents and Copyright must be abolished.