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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jul 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted avery

      "if you want more <x> lower the expected returns from <x>" 🤔https://twitter.com/averykimball/status/1151821385611636737 …

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      avery @averykimball
      If you want innovation, lower the terms of patent protection from 20 years to one year. China just ignores our patents and is kicking our ass.
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jul 2019

      2/ I suspect that there's a Laffer-esque curve to this. Current copyright is far too long, for example. But no copyright, or 1 year of copyright would probably result in far fewer movies, books, and videogames being created.

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jul 2019

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      3/ Allowing an innovator to profit from their investment in engineering R&D is "arbitary" and "parasitic" ? 🤔https://twitter.com/averykimball/status/1151822405402107904 …

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      avery @averykimball
      Replying to @MorlockP
      "If you want more <x> lower the costs due to arbitrary parasitism." 🙏
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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jul 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted avery

      4/ No, no, not abolishing them at all! Just ... abolishing 95% of the duration, and perhaps 99.5% of the utility, given that patented inventions are often selling at a loss / finding their market in their first few years they're for sale.https://twitter.com/averykimball/status/1151822948035993601 …

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      avery @averykimball
      Replying to @averykimball @MorlockP
      Not like I'm abolishing patents, dood.
      4:57 AM - 18 Jul 2019
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      • Frank Lloyd Righteous, Ph.D Misanthropologist StridentTriumphalist Some Other Nick Nations are still useful🖖🍿🎥🙏 Lawyer Dog Karl K. Gallagher avery
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        2. Frank Lloyd Righteous, Ph.D Misanthropologist‏ @BostonDelendEst 18 Jul 2019
          Replying to @peonisis @MorlockP

          *cumming

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        2. avery‏ @averykimball 18 Jul 2019
          Replying to @MorlockP

          I'm all for a model that doesn't award first-to-low-hanging-fruit rent-seeking.

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        2. Frank Lloyd Righteous, Ph.D Misanthropologist‏ @BostonDelendEst 18 Jul 2019
          Replying to @BlueEightySixed @MorlockP

          Great, please articulate the actual standard that should apply to implement that distinction. Do you just know it when you see it?

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        2. Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter‏ @drethelin 18 Jul 2019
          Replying to @MorlockP

          In the current legal environment patents hurt more inventors than they help. You’re opened up to litigation by multi billion dollar multinationals with teams of lawyers who’ll take you out for fun and treble damages because they already own patents broad enough to cover the field

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        3. Matt S "therapeutic lalochezia advocate" Trout‏ @shadowcat_mst 18 Jul 2019
          Replying to @drethelin @MorlockP

          Right. The incentive structures patents were *designed* to create were largely a good idea. The current situation bears basically no relation to it though, and we'd probably be better off with no patent system at all Plus it makes open source antigrav even more obviously correct

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        1. Frank Lloyd Righteous, Ph.D Misanthropologist‏ @BostonDelendEst 18 Jul 2019
          Replying to @MorlockP

          Not like selling or offering to sell the product more than a year before filing the patent renders it invalid.... oh wait

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