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The real issue is that it makes it impossible to compete if you don't have a patent portfolio of your own. You couldn't start building your own handset and inco
by loginx 16y ago
The real issue is that it makes it impossible to compete if you don't have a patent portfolio of your own. You couldn't start building your own handset and incorporate features every other phone on the market has, because you have nothing to fight with when you get sued, thus ensuring that only large corporations can sell those products.
- protomyth 16y agoYep, the same has happened in other industries. If you aren't there at the start, you have to be part of a second wave after the first group's patents expire.