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How often do companies patent things just so that they don't go to market? For example even if they have no intentions to use it, they know that their competit
by mygo 8y ago
How often do companies patent things just so that they don't go to market?
For example even if they have no intentions to use it, they know that their competitors might, so they patent it so that their competitors can't, and thus no one can?
Does this happen? I see patents all the time that never made it to market, so I guess it's plausible. But is it even legal to patent something without intent to bring it to market?
- deytempo 8y agoWith closed source software companies, it really doesn’t matter if they infringe on a patent like this because no one can prove they are doing it without a full code audit