Comments on: Dragon's Den and their obsession with patents http://www.frankieroberto.com/weblog/880 The web and stuff Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:22:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Frankie Roberto’s weblog » Blog Archive » Peter Jones and ‘Own-it North’ http://www.frankieroberto.com/weblog/880/comment-page-1#comment-3033 Frankie Roberto’s weblog » Blog Archive » Peter Jones and ‘Own-it North’ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:46:29 +0000 http://www.frankieroberto.com/weblog/?p=880#comment-3033 [...] to my post a few weeks ago about Dragons Den and patents, I’ve just stumbled across the Own-it North website, via Manchester Digital Development [...] [...] to my post a few weeks ago about Dragons Den and patents, I’ve just stumbled across the Own-it North website, via Manchester Digital Development [...]

]]> By: Frankie Roberto http://www.frankieroberto.com/weblog/880/comment-page-1#comment-3029 Frankie Roberto Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:10:54 +0000 http://www.frankieroberto.com/weblog/?p=880#comment-3029 Interesting link. Patents in science are particularly contentious (and complicated). Interesting link. Patents in science are particularly contentious (and complicated).

]]> By: Mia http://www.frankieroberto.com/weblog/880/comment-page-1#comment-3025 Mia Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:03:58 +0000 http://www.frankieroberto.com/weblog/?p=880#comment-3025 From a different perspective on patents, the BBC had an interesting article, "Patent system 'stifling science'": http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7632318.stm From a different perspective on patents, the BBC had an interesting article, “Patent system ’stifling science’”: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7632318.stm

]]> By: Tim Beadle http://www.frankieroberto.com/weblog/880/comment-page-1#comment-3021 Tim Beadle Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:11:11 +0000 http://www.frankieroberto.com/weblog/?p=880#comment-3021 It's a tricky balance, as you say. I guess you could always do a "poor man's patent" (sealed envelope containing the idea, posted to yourself so it has a postmark) on anything you deemed worthy enough. There's an interesting post on Techdirt about AT&T posters: http://techdirt.com/articles/20080901/1010232136.shtml It seems as though filing patents is preferable to actually doing any innovation. It’s a tricky balance, as you say. I guess you could always do a “poor man’s patent” (sealed envelope containing the idea, posted to yourself so it has a postmark) on anything you deemed worthy enough.

There’s an interesting post on Techdirt about AT&T posters:
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080901/1010232136.shtml

It seems as though filing patents is preferable to actually doing any innovation.

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