Geeklawyer, a child at heart, is a huge fan of Aardman Animation’s Wallace & Grommit so it was with mixed emotions that he received the news that the Patent Office is using them to promote inventions in primary schools.
The venture is not explicitly about promoting patents but rather inventions, however having the project tied to the patent office risks tainting it, in Geeklawyer’s view. It’s great to get kids inventing, but to handcuffing it to a patent agenda is piss poor. We need kids to be excited about inventing, and we desperately need kids to get interested in science and if this helps that then Geeklawyer is partially supportive; but let’s not get confused that patents have anything to do with the process of sparking the desire to create - they are a useless industrial appendage.
More Wensleydale anyone?
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