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Originally Posted by teh603
So in that case, why can patents be bought and sold like commodities or stocks, and held by corporations? Modern patent law- modern going back at least to the time of Thomas Edison and Nicola Tesela- has never supported the argument you just made.
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Is the patent holder or other Intellectual property property rights holder not the original seller? If they sell the rights they are compensated, whether fairly or not.
Helen