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Consider a Spherical Patent
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Consider a Spherical Patent

by Joseph E. Gortych
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
267 pages
10h 39m
English
CRC Press
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8.6 IP Black Holes
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In a normal if not ideal IP space, unpatented and unpatentable innovations reside
in the forbidden regions and are available to the public despite residing next to
some patents that also ended up in the forbidden regions. However, in the case of
an IP black hole, every single possible improvement has been patented, including
all those in the forbidden regions that should be publicly available because their
obviousness made them unpatentable. But innovation cannot move through an
IP black hole. Like a regular black hole that sucks in matter that gets too close and
crushes it by gravitation, an IP black hole sucks in any ...
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