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Especially the cynical practice of filing known-baseless patent suits as described in the article. That behavior should get the company heavily fined, and land
by saidajigumi 10y ago
Especially the cynical practice of filing known-baseless patent suits as described in the article. That behavior should get the company heavily fined, and land the responsible corporate actors in prison.
- an_account 10y agoPrison seems fairly harsh. There are legitimate disagreements about what a patent covers, and to throw someone in prison over that would be ridiculous.
- xupybd 10y agoI'd agree with this. But maybe some kind of restriction on asserting patent claims when organisations repetitively make claims that don't stand up. Something to penalise this behaviour.
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- _jal 10y agoAgreed. Penalties should be in the same form as the motivation: money, and lots of it. Sufficient to make people think twice about asserting a bogus patent again; the amount they claim in damages would be a good starting point. Lose a suit claiming $100m in damages, pay that amount to the winner. Yes, that's arbitrary, but less so than East Texas patent awards.
- mcguire 10y agoWe only have the defendant's word that it was baseless.