Perché proteggere con brevetto idee che non sono costate niente?

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According to the economic theory of patents, patents are needed so that

pioneer rm have time to recoup their sunk costs of research and development.

The key element in the economic theory is that pioneer rms have large, hard

to recoup, sunk costs. Yet patents are not awarded on the basis of a rm's sunk

costs. Patent law, in fact, ignores costs. The disconnect between patent law and

patent theory suggests either that modifying patent law so that it better ts with

patent theory would reduce the costs and ine ciencies associated with current

patent practice or that the standard economic theory of patents is wrong.