The brain implant company cofounded by Elon Musk filed to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis. But it turns out that another person had already filed to trademark those names.
Elmo always finding exciting and innovative ways to grift.
I don’t think patents themselves are inherently bad, but the way things have turned is atrocious.
There’s merit to inventing something that could be easily reproduced once seen and getting a little protection to get to sell it before a big corpo just duplicates it and undersell you to death.
But there are so many crazy patents out there, and especially on very broad ideas in the software world that is absolutely batshit insane.
Software patents probably shouldn’t exist unless they are super fucking specific and only for that exact implementationand method
, but maybe not even then.
I don’t think patents themselves are inherently bad, but the way things have turned is atrocious.
There’s merit to inventing something that could be easily reproduced once seen and getting a little protection to get to sell it before a big corpo just duplicates it and undersell you to death.
But there are so many crazy patents out there, and especially on very broad ideas in the software world that is absolutely batshit insane.
Software patents probably shouldn’t exist unless they are super fucking specific and only for that exact implementationand method , but maybe not even then.