[Patents] Third Paradigm between Patent and Copyright

[PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de]

The scheme for a pre-publication competition might not always work well
the way I conceived it.  Here's a simpler, more robust solution:

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   One month before the logilege publication, the "problem to be solved
   by the innovation" is published, and the logilege description is
   escrowed. From this day on up to the publication of the logilege
   description, any person may publish solutions to the problem, which
   become prior art. If such prior art invalidates the logilege, the
   deposit sum is paid to the author of the earliest invalidating
   publication.
   
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   Many aspects of the logilege could also serve to inspire a reform of
   the existing patent system. But within the framework of treaties such
   as TRIPS, such a reform is hardly feasible, and in the area of
   concrete-physical inventions, the necessity for it is not felt very
   clearly. For example, the invalidating competions are indispensable
   for abstract-logical innovations, because the privilege-worthy
   innovations must be filtered out from a volatile world where
   innovation is daily routine and the state of the art is rarely
   consulted let alone documented. Thus any third paradigm system of
   exclusion rights faces specific challenges, for which the patent
   system never needed to develop an answer.
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