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Originally Posted by Double  Hello DaveM
Im sorry, compared to what? |
Companies spending more time making small changes to existing products.
Individual inventors would still come up with products, they would get much less of the profits. Since companies can just copy their design they have a lot less leverage when negotiating the terms of letting the company make it. The inventor has to sell his product quickly before the people he's trying to sell the product to figure out how to designs it themselves.
Im sure a lot of the time company engineers will figure out how to copy it and produce it. Than they have no reason to pay the inventor anything and he gets nothing for all his work.