Re: [DIYbio] anti patent strategies

On 06/06/2012 06:03 PM, Simon Quellen Field wrote:
> Spending time and money worrying about patents leaves you less time and money
> for doing science.

but... it could help for doing business that also lets you do
some engineering or science for pure fun. If you're too poor, you have time for nothing.
You've spent plenty of time on merchandising to create your selling web sites.
You chose less time for pure-fun-doing-science when you created your sites.
Maybe you have oodles of free time now, but I don't. Cathal has a time window
of opportunity aided by his wife. You can't expect him to waste any of that.

>
> This is the first time I have heard anyone in the group saying that they were doing
> the work to get glory.

Lots of scientists and ordinary people do things for recognition. glory <==> exaggerated form(recognition)

>
> Cathal seems to be worried that someone will get a patent that prevents him from
> working with some organism, molecule, or method. I think he can work with patented
> organisms, molecules, and methods without worry.

I've heard Cathal say he has business plans to do with kit manufacturing for diybio
and he said just yesterday "distractions
down patent-trollable dead-ends will only waste a lot of our time and
money as a community."


> What I am concerned about is that members of the group will self-censor

They may. It's not your call what they do about what they know.

I don't think talking about anti patent strategies is a waste at all.
As an engineering employee, it often came up and was ordered to stop by bosses,
put down by some peers pressure, and mostly because being more aware of business
mechanics usually makes more employees quit or complain, so seen as negative from employer perspective.

Bio seems so patent saturated, it's hard to not talk about it.

John Griessen

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