http://www.thefireofgenius.com/2006/06/30/a-profile-of-myrhvolds-intellectual-ventures/ Academic commentary about patent law, i.p. law, creativity, and more Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:30:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.thefireofgenius.com/2006/06/30/a-profile-of-myrhvolds-intellectual-ventures/#comment-1720 Stuart Bonneday Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:31:14 +0000 http://www.thefireofgenius.com/2006/06/30/a-profile-of-myrhvolds-intellectual-ventures/#comment-1720 Fascinating, the idea of bringing people together and seeing what they would come up with. I wonder if this model could be generalized? Or even, made so that people could find each other to generate ideas? What would happen if Lowell Wood, Edward Boyden, and Dennis Rivet could have found each other autonomously, or through some social-networking program - generating all the ideas, and keeping the profits for themselves? Distributed inventorship! Hmm. Fascinating, the idea of bringing people together and seeing what they would come up with. I wonder if this model could be generalized? Or even, made so that people could find each other to generate ideas? What would happen if Lowell Wood, Edward Boyden, and Dennis Rivet could have found each other autonomously, or through some social-networking program - generating all the ideas, and keeping the profits for themselves? Distributed inventorship! Hmm.

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