On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Saturday 26 June 2010 09:06:31 steve wrote:
> > Patents inherently are not *bad*. In fact, they are required in
> mechanical
> > related industries to protect and nurture innovation.
> >
>
> there is no proof for this statement - it is just a misapprehension -
> patents
> are bad because they hinder development, and this is true in all fields of
> endeavour.


+1
Absolutely true.

Coming back to my example - Bajaj vs TVS. TVS could have developed the
technology independently. Coincidently if it was the same a Bajaj - they
need to dump it. This will hinder development


Arun.


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