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+# Wellspring: Intellectual property
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+Identified concepts are not patentable. Why not?
+* NDA is the secret path - gov't protects NDAs.
+  * NDAs are suboptimal. Useful knowledge is kept secret because the discoverer has to wait to find an application.
+  * What are the arguments against knowledge patents?
+    * "Everybody will just patent every little thing". Ok, so what? That's a good thing: it'll encourage people to disclose useful knowledge in exchange for protection.
+    * "Companies will have to pay exorbitently high royalties". If it is profitable to use an idea, then no cost is prohibitive.
+    * "People will launch Denial-Of-Service attacks by registering concepts and refusing to license them". We can have a special cause of action for conceptual patents which will
+      enable other individuals to 
+Mathematical formulae are not patentable because they express inductive generalizations about nature.
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+The produce of simulation is protectable as copyright.
+The produce of trust, reputation, credibility, credentials.
+The produce of applying concepts via a method is patentable.
+Computer programs are protectable because they are the application of concepts via a method.
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+One solution for patent time limits would be to place a burden of proof on the owner of the patent to prove that they are actively pursuing its use and application in production.
+* The patent duration lasts from the beginning of the first commercial production.
+* Prior to the point of first commercial production, the owner has a right to exclude, but it may be lost if a competitor can prove that they aren't acting to bring it to market.