Samsung Display has scored an unprecedented victory against its rival BOE for stealing its OLED technology.
In 2023, it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Chinese firm BOE with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC).
Samsung recently won that lawsuit, and the commission’s ruling is expected to effectively ban BOE’s products from entering the USA.
Ah, that’s what you were getting at. Yes. Of course I’m right there with you to seize the means of production.
But after that’s done, I’m quitting rnd and going home to subsist on my monthly ration of 5m long baguettes and 20L jars of mustard. Someone else can work in the dangerous chem lab. If they want to.
Also, yes. In the past 200 years, inventions borne from the motivations of capitalism have brought us indoor plumbing and refrigeration. If you feel that these are meaningless, I invite you to go without it for just a day.
If the foundations for innovation were already laid for humanity… Only thing capitalism invented was normalizing greed and preventing the majority of people from enjoying the fruits of advancement.
We never survived without cooperation. refrigeration, Microwave would never be invented in the capitalistic environment that has been festering to this point. At least you and I wouldn’t be allowed to enjoy it without paying rent for it.
Shall i give you examples where capitalism perverted an idea that works by distributing benefit into one that funnels said benefit to a few people? There are so many. Infact, not funneling the benefits is the rarer occurance. Insurance is a scam. AI is just theft of our own collective knowledge held hostage.
Remember, people still invented stuff before capitalism.
I think we’re digressing. I’m quite well aware of the evils of capitalism. But what is/are your suggested alternative(s) to the clearly flawed patent system?
A patent system that does not grant a patent beyond 10 years. So nobody can sit on their inventions forever and deny the public the benefits which they extract out of public money. A patent system that requires a proven product in the market place and not a concept of a product in somebody’s imagination, to prevent patent trolls from stifling real innovation. A patent system that requires the patent producer to share the secrets with the public if public funding was used to develop a patent in any form.
A copyright system that actually understands product boundaries and doesn’t exist as a nebuluous concept of “This name is associated with us hence it violates copyright”. A copyright system that doesn’t prevent fair use.
This cannot happen under capitalism as it exists. So i am not really digressing.