TheWorx

There was a time when patents were a good idea because it made an inventor more willing to share his invention with the world--in fact, the patent office insists that when you describe your invention, others should also be able to make it; just not make money off of that copying without a license from the inventor. So, you've invented something. You think it will make millions for you and benefit the World even though the latter is not a requirement. You produce the thing and find that someone has infringed on your patent before your product has even taken off. It cost you almost every spare penny you had. Now, you've got to mortgage your home because it is now up to you to sue and the courts now have to determine who really infringed on whom and what might you have done that invalidates the patent. Perhaps you left out a pertinent "prior art" that duped the patent office into giving you that patent [prior art must be acknowledged even though the USPTO has the best se...

Our Governor Murphy's attempt at maximizing tax revenue from marijuana sales is tantamount to King George--also a Briton--trying to force a tea monopoly on the colonists. What this graduate of Goldman-Sachs fails to realize is that holding hostage the NJ resident by forcing him to buy "Murphy Weed" under threat of draconian incarceration for "home grown weed" only shows how greed reigns supreme in the Goldman-Sachs world.  As citizens, we need to wise up and understand that the businessman should have no role to play in politics for, although sociopaths make good surgeons and successful businessmen, humanity, as a whole, needs empathic leaders and not just those who offer lip service to our grievances. The best way to get people to buy "Murphy Weed" is to increase their standard of living (i.e., employment with good wages). It is NOT by throwing people in jail for trying to make ends meet through home cultivation. If I have money for "Murphy Weed,...