Darina Yerezhepova / tue 56/ Argumentative essay

Abandon intellectual property protection

The advantages of intellectual property protection extend only to the people, who are interested in their existence - patentees. However, negative implications touch each of us, ever since everyone is equal before the law. In my opinion, there is no need of IP protection if you are not a patent holder because intellectual property protection has a bad influence on the scientific progress and non-patent holders welfare and rights.

The main reason is overcooling of scientific progress. The irony of the situation is that defenders of IP believe what IP property is a basic condition for the scientific and technical progress. In fact, the patent holder, protected by the low, is not experiencing a serious need to improve the quality of their products or services. Historical evidence of this are the Italian and German craft guilds, they did not change their technology for decades and even centuries, preserving archaic ways of producing and consuming popular products. According to Michele Boldrin and David Levine, each period of history, marked by technological breakthroughs, occurs when intellectual property protection was absent. Their example, which supports their idea. is the great innovators of the past - such as the inventor of the steam engine, James Watt, and creators of the first airplane brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright. They are famous not only for their inventions, but also for preventing any chance to improve their products and make them more affordable for economic reasons.

Secondly IP protection causes the violation of the property rights of non-patent holders, in other words, limiting people's personal freedom of a private property. As we have learned, using a laser pointer to play with a cat is a registered patent of K.T. Amiss and M.H. Abbott, so you cannot use your laser lights, bought for your money, with your cat in this way. Great Britain Patent No. GB2221607 "Glove for Lovers" also helps to develop the theme. "Glove for Lovers" is a two gloves stitched together, which allows loving couples to hold their hands together and not to get cold. By supporting my idea, despite the fact that a person has the material and skills, the law restricts them to use their material in this way.

Moreover, intellectual property protection results in redistribution of income in favor of the patent monopoly, in words of one syllable it means the gap between the rich and the poor will increase more and more. So the social inequality undermines political and economic stability of a country. Not necessary to explain that if you do not belong to the rich, every day of your life will be directed to the extraction of resources for survival. Even if you have everything to earn enough money for living, you cannot do the activity if it breaks the intellectual property law.

To sum up briefly, as the pros of IP protection touch only patentees, whereas the cons influence all of humanity, IP protection should be abandoned. Although adherents of intellectual property are the Great of the World, overcooling of scientific progress, the repeal of IP law is possible, due to the fact that violation of the property rights of non-patent holders, growing gap between the rich and the poor are really strong arguments.