In the software market, what benefits does the patent system have for consumers?

First, the legislative value of the patent system focuses on safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of inventors and ensuring that they realize their social value as well as their personal value; The same is true of the software patent system. Its direct function is to protect the legitimate rights and interests of inventors, but the benefits it brings to consumers are indirect.

Secondly, the benefits of software patent system to consumers are realized through a process: first, the patent system allows inventors to obtain economic and reputation benefits; The second is to satisfy the inventor's material life and cultural life and ensure the material conditions for invention and creation; Third, the inventor's enthusiasm for invention and creation has been improved; Fourth, inventors are more willing to invest in new inventions; Fifth, the inventor invented a more comprehensive and novel software patent; Sixth, consumers bought new software patents, which greatly met their needs and improved their study, life and work quality. Since then, a new virtuous circle has begun.

Third, in the short term, consumers will pay more for the new features of new software patents. However, in the long run, the software patent system will stimulate the enthusiasm of more inventors, create more new patents, and then form competition in the seller's market, resulting in the price of new patented products falling because of oversupply, so that consumers can get more tangible benefits.

In short, the patent system directly protects the legitimate rights and interests of inventors, thus indirectly enabling consumers to obtain "constantly updated, inexpensive" goods, and constantly improving the learning effect, work efficiency and quality of life of consumers.

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