Patents, the worked case

A patent is a claim-record over a made thing. Someone did the work. Often the provenance is clean.

Often it is mixed. Public funding. Prior science. Trial participants. The public grant of monopoly that makes the invention portable at all. Where those inputs carried weight, the holder’s authority is bounded by theirs.

Propagation is where patents divide.

A patent on something nobody needs to live is cooperative. The inventor recovers the cost. The lock expires. The room widens.

A patent on something people need to live, priced past what those people can pay, is parasitic at the resolution of the bodies locked out.

Same tool. Different propagation. Different verdict. The patent is not the verdict. The patent is what the verdict is run on.

The test does not produce a redistribution programme. It installs what any redistribution must satisfy. A redistribution that shrinks the room is parasitic too, whatever the rhetoric around it. The account is symmetric.

Copyright and trademark run the same two questions. The chapter does not walk them. You can.

This is the short edition of Ø Applications — a summary. Where a step is compressed here, the original carries it in full. The original book (PDF) · This edition (PDF)

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