Re: [Patents] Gregnews: US report proves EP lies

[Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 01:04 +0200, Bernard Lang wrote:
> One thing is obvious for example : intangible goods have an economic
> caracteristic which is their zero marginal cost (they are non rival).
> Patents are usually licenced on a per unit cost.  Hence, if intangible
> goods include patented parts, they lose this essential property of
> zero marginal cost.  But this property determines possible economic
> and innovation models, and some are no longer possible without it.

Remember the scarcity, whether natural or artificially created is often
a characteristic needed to easily make big profits.
So by creating scarcity you make it easier for a limited number of
people (the ones that control the resource) to make big profits.
This seem obvious but I think sometimes we tend to forget this fact. 

Simo.

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