I know patents help protect the person or company that comes up with the idea.

but some times i think patents is what hinders us from having more advance tech from being made. a company patents something and it can only go in their products or they just sit on it and never use it and dont open it for use by other companies.

I remember reading a few months back a article about google and another i think phone company trying to buy a company that was going under mainly to acquire its patents....

apple patents everything even their doodles on napkins

I know we need patents, but some times think it goes to far. I remember hearing apple suing over the patent that they patented the swipe to unlock on there iphone...really apple....really

discuss your thoughts on patents