Story: Slippery patents directive is doubleplusungood

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Patents are the cornerstone of innovation. Why? Because if one cannot protect one's work, then no one has any incentive to develop that work. No one wants to spend years creating something only to have it stolen and copied by others. Without patents there would be no innovation, no creation. The elimination of patents is Communism - take from everyone and redistribute - a system in which no one owns anything.

If the U.S. patent system is such a 'mess' as this article claims, then perhaps ZDNet should ask itself why the U.S. economy is #1 in thw world. Anwser: it's because the U.S. protects IP and thus provides an incentive for developers and inventors to create things. Without that incentive, no one wouild bother making anything because it can be stolen by someone else.

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