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Let's make patent trolling a crime, so an organization/company doing/preparing that crime could be stopped.
by faragon 9y ago
Let's make patent trolling a crime, so an organization/company doing/preparing that crime could be stopped.
- johncolanduoni 9y agoAnd how would you define that crime, in a way that isn't so vague it just becomes a tool for either the government to arbitrarily prosecute people or for companies with solid IP lawyers to shield themselves from taking anyone else's IP seriously?
- faragon 9y agoIn the same way as you define the mafia: a business based on making profit from extortion.
- johncolanduoni 9y agoIf you include threatening to bring court cases as extortion, what's the point in having any laws that let you sue for damages? Or enforceable contracts? If my landlord starts neglecting my lease, do I now have to choose between just letting them get away with it and criminal charges? I wasn't expecting you to come up with a particularly great condition, but this one is particularly silly pitchfork-pandering.
- faragon 9y agoThe one concluding that would be a judge, of course.
- mamon 9y agoThat description also matches virtually any government in existence :)
- faragon 9y agoGovernment is under democratic control. A private company, is not.