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> It is a massive negative-sum (to the non-lawyer participants) To be fair, in this case Ericsson is a practicing entity and they probably have a salaried lega
by magicalist 11y ago
> It is a massive negative-sum (to the non-lawyer participants)
To be fair, in this case Ericsson is a practicing entity and they probably have a salaried legal staff, so your specific criticisms don't really apply here.
More just general patent criticisms: ease of acquisition, non-specificity, valuation on market and legal leverage instead of marginal value, (if any of the above patents are software patents) software patents in general, etc
- __jal 11y ago> Ericsson is a practicing entity and they probably have a salaried legal staff I didn't say anything about NPEs. Ericsson may have a stable of in-house patent litigators; it is one enterprise where that probably makes economic sense (I know Google has their own IP litigators). But most patent litigation that makes it to trial is handled by specialist firms.