{"id":1545,"date":"2011-07-10T16:59:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T15:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2011-07-10T17:04:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T16:04:44","slug":"seasoned-startup-investors-absolutely-hate-patents-and-the-entire-patent-system-they-compare-it-to-a-cancer-in-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/10\/seasoned-startup-investors-absolutely-hate-patents-and-the-entire-patent-system-they-compare-it-to-a-cancer-in-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;seasoned startup investors absolutely hate patents and the entire patent system. They compare it to a cancer in the economy. &#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes! Yes, yes, YES!<\/p>\n<p>Next time anyone in the UK hears an investor ask about patents (hint: they probably are ex-3i staff &#8211; and no, that isn&#8217;t a good thing), send them this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/falkvinge.net\/2011\/06\/21\/ten-myths-about-patents\/\">10 Myths about patents<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Myth 3: Nobody would invest in startups that don\u2019t have patents.<\/p>\n<p>Fact: The seasoned startup investors absolutely hate patents and the entire patent system. They compare it to a cancer in the economy. &#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes! Yes, yes, YES! Next time anyone in the UK hears an investor ask about patents (hint: they probably are ex-3i staff &#8211; and no, that isn&#8217;t a good thing), send them this: 10 Myths about patents &#8220;Myth 3: Nobody would invest in startups that don\u2019t have patents. Fact: The seasoned startup investors absolutely hate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,61,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}