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I don't think much will change until a huge company loses to an obvious patent troll.
by praptak 17y ago
I don't think much will change until a huge company loses to an obvious patent troll.
- staunch 17y agoThat happens quite regularly I think. I know Microsoft has paid out many times. The most horrible example is probably related to IE plugins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas#Litigation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas#Litigation
- praptak 17y agoYes indeed - I should have written "loses big".
- DeusExMachina 17y agoThey could also be not so big losses, but many of them. Companies need to become strongly intertwined, having to pay a lot of other companies for everything they make. They need to be ensnared by a lot of legal laces, unable to move. Then they will try to cut these laces. And these laces are patent laws.
- ZeroGravitas 17y ago"loses more than they gain in controlling the market and shutting out competition from new entrants with their own patents"
- bmelton 17y agoI admittedly wasn't following it at the time, but isn't that basically exactly what happened to RIM regarding push email?
- cakesy 17y ago$615.5 million, is that big enough? That was a huge settlement.