[MURG] Uploading IP (intellectual property)

[cat13 at illrepute.org]

"Yan King Yin" <y.k.y at lycos.com> writes:

> From: cat13 at illrepute.org
> 
> >> > 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.

All the examples I can find involve software patents.  There are many hits to a
Google search for:
patent licensor "out of business"

> I think there is no need to look... if a patent is
> "lost", we can simply go ahead with the development
> after making some infinetesimal variations on the
> original design. No one will be there to file a
> lawsuit.

The patent isn't lost.  The research locked up in the patent is lost.