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Well that would get played for sure. Apple would start tiny wholly owned companies or buy special purpose startups with only patents etc.
by achamayou 9y ago
Well that would get played for sure. Apple would start tiny wholly owned companies or buy special purpose startups with only patents etc.
- rdlecler1 9y agoThat could be taken into consideration.
- darawk 9y agoNot reliably. International corporate ownership is very complex. And consider the following: Apple instructs one of its employees to quit and start a new company. That company files the patent and gets it approved for cheap. Apple buys the company the next day. It's very hard to create a system here that's not readily gameable.
- craftyguy 9y agoPatents need to be renewed when the entity that owns them no longer exists (e.g. acquired). If they are not renewed, then they expire and become public domain.
- ribosometronome 9y agoTebahpla, Inc -- a small company with 3 employees a gross yearly income of ~450k files for a patent and gets it granted for 20 years. Tebahpla then licenses that patent only to Google, for 20 years, for $10 a year.
- craftyguy 9y agodamn, this is going to be harder than I thought.