What is the mission of the US Patent Office?
A recurring theme in my blogging is that people tend to have unexamined assumptions about what creates business success. I know I have. With the right unconscious assumptions, Mills is easily rejected. It is easy to believe that if Mills is correct, this would be easily determined by observation and once observed by credible people, word would spread and business success would be his. What are the assumptions built into this belief structure that supports rejecting Mills? Building the better mousetrap might result in a profitable business, but more likely, it will result in others copying it. Patents were invented because the founders of the US wanted citizens to be able to claim the fruits of their own minds to have defensible economic value, if they met certain criteria. The history of the development of patent law reveals that those criteria are not easily determined or fixed in time. I am not a patent expert, although I did study...