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But he doesn't have to sell the patent. He only has to sell the rights to use.
by cm3 11y ago
But he doesn't have to sell the patent. He only has to sell the rights to use.
- Retric 11y agoThat allows for patent trolls.
- cm3 11y agoI should have written license rather than sell. And a license goes with restrictions. The other choice is to get a patent granted and license it to everyone for free with a do-no-evil-or-revoke clause.
- serge2k 11y agoBut not to nearly the same degree, since now you can't gather up IP from a bunch of places and then toss it to a company that's only purpose is suing.
- AnthonyMouse 11y agoSo instead you have a company that gathers up contracts with owners of IP from a bunch of places to get a "finder's fee" from anybody they negotiate a patent license with. It's no different at all. About the only thing you could even hope for is that the original inventor will have more of a conscience about how the patent is being licensed than the troll entity. But if that happens on a regular basis then then the troll entity will just start putting liquidated damages clauses in their license finding contracts with inventors that penalizes the inventor for pulling out after the troll entity has done work to find a license victim.