Well you have to admit that it is really hard to decide who owns what. There are even cases where both parties can prove they owned it at exactly the same time.
In all fairness, fee or not, some sort of registration on property (created) would weed through a lot of crap that is claimed.
"We coined the term iPhone back in the 1920's" just to get a piece of Apple's pie will no longer hold water. They will go back to the records and say
"According to our records, you never had anything to do with the term iPhone, have a good day!"
It's bad enough you spend tons of personal time and revenue to create something just to have it stolen, it's worse when you create it and have to spend twice what you made (not including what you had to spend to make) from the product just to defend yourself against those who want the quick payout of "I came up with that first" when lawyers just settle out of court to shut them up most of the time anyhow.
In all fairness, fee or not, some sort of registration on property (created) would weed through a lot of crap that is claimed.
"We coined the term iPhone back in the 1920's" just to get a piece of Apple's pie will no longer hold water. They will go back to the records and say
"According to our records, you never had anything to do with the term iPhone, have a good day!"
It's bad enough you spend tons of personal time and revenue to create something just to have it stolen, it's worse when you create it and have to spend twice what you made (not including what you had to spend to make) from the product just to defend yourself against those who want the quick payout of "I came up with that first" when lawyers just settle out of court to shut them up most of the time anyhow.