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Trying to explain the importance of innovation rights, often some smarty-pants would say with great certainty that a patent is just a right to sue. The response is: Yes, and you're likely to be the one to be sued.


If you don't understand innovation rights -- and don't understand the many wrong things you can do to lose rights -- then your bright ideas likely will be wasted.


When Huge Greedy Co has a patent, that patent is an innovation right.

When that patent stifles innovation by others it is an innovation wrong.

Patents and other intellectual property rights are innovation rights.

Barriers to innovation are innovation wrongs.

Encouragements of innovation are innovation rights.

When Huge Greedy Co uses market power to stifle innovation that is an innovation wrong.

If Huge Greedy Co would help independent inventors and start-up businesses gain innovation rights -- in the form of patents and other intellectual property rights -- that would be an innovation right.

Helping the greatest diversity of persons understand innovation rights helps them gain innovation rights -- in the form of patents and other intellectual property rights -- and is an innovation right.