[MURG] Uploading IP (intellectual property)

[cat13 at illrepute.org]

Major <murg at audry2.com> writes:

> cat13 at illrepute.org writes:
> 
> > It's also perfectly feasible to prevent anyone else from developing Y
> > by refusing to license it.  If Y is vital to uploading, then no one but
> > you can allow uploading to go forward - and what happens if you go under?
> > Important advances are lost forever under the present patent system all
> > the time.
> 
> Really? Can you give me an example of this?

Looking, slow browser.  Will post when I find one.

> As patents are personal property they pass to the receiver when an
> individual or business goes bankrupt. The receiver should try to
> maximize the return which in the case of a patent means either
> licensing it or selling it.

Unfortunately, since corporations are, legally, their own entities, when one
dies its assets (including IP, such as patents) actually belong to its
creditors rather than to humans.
Those creditors will either try to make money off of the IP or, if they don't
know how, throw it away so as not to incur fees associated with the storage
of information (recycle hard drives, repurpose lab equipment, send paper to
the dump, cancel storage facility contracts).