[DIYbio] anti patent strategies (was: DIYbio projects)

On 06/06/2012 11:12 AM, Simon Quellen Field wrote:
> Don't worry about patents. Publish your ideas early and often, and freely. Society will
> benefit earlier

But only as much as corps want in the course of their normal business.

Kinda leaves out all chance of some indie bio breakthroughs or getting any limelight.

Can we all just shuffle along and be of service to the universe and
be content that "the big money" gets all the glory?

And can we be content at the speed of change by monopolists acting to extract the most money
per time unit rather than effect the greatest change?

How about this:

Your goal is not to defend one patent, but a range of innovations, some closely related, some not.
You start making money and get a reputation on some free-published processes, materials, chemistry,
DNA chunks, etc.

Since defending one patent is so ridiculously expensive, start a savings account for generally
making it a pain to attack most of your innovations and spend it directly and along with
crowd funded matching funds on patent apps done with the help of a open hardware friendly attorney
in a ratio of maybe 1% of sales income on kits, machines, trainings, etc. For every $100K you didn't
spend on a single defense, you could buy 800 self filed patent apps.
If you paid your attorney $250 for handling
every boilerplate app over time and also a few carefully crafted ones for the same rate, that would
be 267 patent apps for the same money.

Sure, it needs some actual money flow to do, but why just give up on independent bio work?


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