tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post7248133592659341139..comments2024-03-19T06:27:47.905+00:00Comments on The IPKat: EU IPO Observatory study finds trade secrets rule the roost over patents in Europe Verónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-7732742091036222642017-07-27T12:18:28.007+01:002017-07-27T12:18:28.007+01:00Couldn't agree more. The EU Observatory's ...Couldn't agree more. The EU Observatory's publications on the value of IP infringement are some of the most intellectually dishonest documents I have ever seen. They appear to set out to deliberately inflate the value of IP infringement in order to support tougher IP infringement measures. For example, they ignore any and all economic contributions made by infringements whilst simultaneously maximising all losses made by the rights owners. The reports regularly make the cardinal sin of assuming every infringing sale is loss of a genuine sale. Similarly, they repeatedly assume that infringers have no employees and pay no taxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-88236836094159581452017-07-20T22:13:15.100+01:002017-07-20T22:13:15.100+01:00The EU Observatory of Meaningless Twaddle could ev...The EU Observatory of Meaningless Twaddle could even make a True Remainer like me feel glad we're leaving. No-one should have to pay for this nonsense.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-69812679976274869412017-07-16T14:11:07.012+01:002017-07-16T14:11:07.012+01:00I found this comment somewhat self-conflicting:
&...I found this comment somewhat self-conflicting:<br /><br />"<i>The Study recognized that the results uncover relationships, but they are not to be construed as conclusive proof of cause-and-effect relationships. More in-depth research and better data is required. Indeed, that is a problem that plagues trade secrets. Unlike other areas of IP, trade secrets have been neglected in terms of studies and economic impact, in particular with that and patents.</i>"<br /><br />It is the <b>nature</b> of being "secret" itself that drives the "plague" - rather than any sense of "been neglected."<br /><br />One should understand <i>that</i> nature of "secret" and be contrasting that nature with the necessary "openness" of the Quid Pro Quo nature of patents in the first place.<br /><br />What I so often see (especially here in the States) is the desire to place these two modes as somehow on an equal societal basis - which is seemingly (and directly) at odds with why we have patent systems in the first place.THE US anonnoreply@blogger.com