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Intellectual Law is getting more ridiculous with each new lawsuit being lodged by lazy companies which prefer to ride on the success of others.

We see companies rushing to file ridiculous patents, only to leave the development to flounder in the mires of their dusty archives. Then when some enterpreneur hits a gold mine with a similar idea, these companies set loose their bunch of hound dogs to sue the pants off the poor entrepreneur who simply made better use of an idea and was successful.

IP law stifles creativity by granting the holder a monopoly on methods and ideas, so much so that nobody else can safely do the same, or improve on it! It definitely goes against the core grain of the idea of Intellectual Property law for the encouragement of inventions and creativity by allowing individuals and companies to have exclusive rights to earn from their inventions.

Essentially, what I could do now is to file patents for virtually everything I think up of, (that is, if they have not been filed by others yet), leave the developement to rot. When somebody does it better than me, I’ll gather some hungry IP lawyers and sue for damages.

What better to earn money than to earn it off somebody who can do it better than me?

That is what Creative Technologies is doing with its lawsuit on Apple. You can do it better than me? I’ll make sure your earnings end up in my pocket anyway. If you don’t pay up, I’ll make sure you spend all your earnings fighting me!
Anyway, I am absolutely confident that the lawsuit will fail, since that patent is for a method of organising songs in the MP3 player, it is probably unenforceable as it is too general and overencompassing.

To Creative: You may be a Singaporean company, but I don’t support companies that do ridiculous things when they get desperate.

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