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The classic patent troll is a hollow legal structure intended as a vehicle to shake people down for money on a possibly spurious threat. The Commonwealth Scien
by jacques_chester 10y ago
The classic patent troll is a hollow legal structure intended as a vehicle to shake people down for money on a possibly spurious threat.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is, as the name suggests, an honest-to-god pure and applied research body.
If CSIRO researchers invent a thing and the CSIRO patents it, they damn well deserve their fair royalties.
- dredmorbius 10y agoSee Fraunhofer's history in the MP3 patents mess. Other research institutions have had similar issues. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/technology/05music.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/technology/05music.htm...
- Laforet 10y agoIt's just unfortunate that the interests of public research institutes often overlaps with those of patent trolls. Previous attempts to reform patent law in the USA have all been defeated partially due to strong opposition and lobbying by major universities.