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Now this is a capitalist. This guy is what happens when you make it easy for someone to go make a new-and-improved product.
by dawnbreez 11y ago
Now this is a capitalist. This guy is what happens when you make it easy for someone to go make a new-and-improved product.
- psykovsky 11y agoNow that he's on the news the patent trolls will get to him. Wait and see...
- noonespecial 11y agoI suspect a hapless patent troll would get far more than he bargained for after sending his C&D to these fellows.
- anonu 11y agoCan you clarify this statement? It's not clear to me that this business model necessarily violates patents. It seems like they're just taking already well-established products and tweaking them. Then they're applying marketing techniques to get to the top of Amazon and Ebay searches...
- intopieces 11y agoIt likely doesn't violate patents, but that has never stopped patent trolls.
- dawnbreez 11y agoThis is actually true--improvement on a design is not patent infringement, and you can file your own patent for an improvement of someone else's design. That having been said, patent trolls don't really use patent infringement, but the threat of an infringement suit. They send threatening letters and wait for their target to realize that the court battle costs more than paying the fee.
- rycfan 11y agoThe article is from 2013. We've already waited and seen. They're still around, and no reports of them being sued.
- psykovsky 11y agoYeah... I guess you're right.
- draw_down 11y agoI say Amazon is the real capitalist in this story.
- dawnbreez 11y agoPerhaps entrepreneur is a better word for what this guy's doing, but capitalism at its best encourages people to make what people need.