Innovation at Risk

You know I’m going to be getting this book as soon as it comes out. I’m pretty vocal about my dislike for patents, but because other companies use them I always end up working on some kind of protective patent umbrella or at least some blocking patents where ever I go. I refuse to put my name on them, cause they’re a vestige of an absurd concept gone horribly wrong. I begrudgingly accept their utility in certain cases, but almost all of those cases are where someone else attacks you with some patent issue (and the other ones are all legal issues as well). It’s one of those closed loop feedback systems. Why do you get patents? Well cause everyone else has patents of course! And why do they all have patents? Cause everyone they’re competing with has patents. Oh yes, I would love to see the day where we can just do away with the broken system as a whole. Unfortunately the book is not yet available for pre-order through Amazon, otherwise I would have already done so.