That’s not a patent law question, that’s a social theory question using a bizarre form of patents as the mechanism.
And my answer is “absolutely not”. I have no interest in preventing people to work on what they want, nor in protecting someone’s unproven idea with no evidence that it’s the right person to solve it or that there will be any success. Ideas are cheap, working systems are valuable.
Also, I’ll take “the inefficiencies of competition” over the inefficiencies of monopoly any day, especially in public pursuits where governments have any say.
That’s not a patent law question, that’s a social theory question using a bizarre form of patents as the mechanism.
And my answer is “absolutely not”. I have no interest in preventing people to work on what they want, nor in protecting someone’s unproven idea with no evidence that it’s the right person to solve it or that there will be any success. Ideas are cheap, working systems are valuable.
Also, I’ll take “the inefficiencies of competition” over the inefficiencies of monopoly any day, especially in public pursuits where governments have any say.