It is time to free the reins of the economy, and stop flogging it to death. (Wow, that was pretty bad, I can’t believe my keyboard said it that way…)
Patent law has long been a highly lucrative field, (an insider’s game for sure!), for the patent attorneys to play upon, but it is time that modern data management and communication took over. The attorneys can still have a field day with the aftermath; it should be at least as lucrative, but with different victims paying their way.
Imagine; the innovators and producers will be able to rock and roll, and disputes will have relatively clear-cut solutions, without the miles of red tape currently hindering progress before the fact, and there will be a minimum of impossible mountains to climb for the small business entrepreneur, or even, gasp, an “induhvidual”.
Given an international network of unthinking robotic archivists, documenting “new” to a level only nearly as full of minutia as Twits twitting their incredibly interesting lives to all their followers…
Never mind that, on with the concept! …assuring that chronology and any clearly resultant intellectual ownership are more important that a fat checkbook, both before production, and after the rip-offs begin. The act of staking claim in a timely fashion would be a launch point, not the frighteningly expensive and daunting process it is today.
I admit to looking forward to a time when the small business innovator can count on rationality, rather than beaucoup cash American, determining ownership, and restitution, when necessary. My own vision of Jack the giant killer setting things right.
I must now confess, this is pure conjecture, not an iota of Mensa grade analysis has been applied to the supposition.