Re: [Free-sklyarov-uk] Re: [DMCA_Discuss] Re: [Patents] IT World Feature: Patently ridiculous: What's Europe to do?

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

> >If company A does all the marketing preparations, it also gains
> >experience and first mover advantages.  There are usually enough to
> >offset any initial monies [invested], ....
>
> Hello???  I am not going to try first mover advantage in any marketplace
> that has deep-pocket companies like Microsoft.

I already wrote (in the part that you didn't quote) that this applies only
if the company that is going to market this has access to the market, i.e.
is one of the oligopolists that are usually dominating a market.  It
doesn't apply if you want to use a new product in order to push a newbie
company in there.  But that is not the normal case we ought to be talking
about.  The dream of market outsiders becoming rich by means of a special
monopoloy is not what universities are supposed to realise.  And even if
they wanted to realise it with help of patents, it would probably not
work, as has been pointed out by others in this round.

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