>So many times I've had an idea and not long later someone has come out with that exact product - not because they stole it from me but because they come up with it themselves.
Right.
I believe that as we collectively walk toward the horizon of what's possible, new things become visible to lots of us at roughly the same time.
>The ability to execute on that idea is much more important.
Sort of.
Thing is, patents seem to reward not the ability to execute, so much as the ability to execute first on what is rapidly being revealed as obvious due to the advancing horizon.
Executing fastest seems to be equated to the result being non-obvious and ignores the reality that parallel development towards the same end is likely.
Right.
I believe that as we collectively walk toward the horizon of what's possible, new things become visible to lots of us at roughly the same time.
>The ability to execute on that idea is much more important.
Sort of.
Thing is, patents seem to reward not the ability to execute, so much as the ability to execute first on what is rapidly being revealed as obvious due to the advancing horizon.
Executing fastest seems to be equated to the result being non-obvious and ignores the reality that parallel development towards the same end is likely.