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Defensive patents are for making cross-licensing deals when IBM, Apple, and so on, come calling with their stack of patents to demand a slice of your revenue.
by pnw_hazor 8y ago
Defensive patents are for making cross-licensing deals when IBM, Apple, and so on, come calling with their stack of patents to demand a slice of your revenue.
- johnmaguire2013 8y agoRight... The parent's point was that saying "we see the value in the patent system: it allows us to defend ourselves when others use the patent system against us" doesn't really make logical sense.
- cortesoft 8y agoRight, but you wouldn't need defensive patents if patents didn't exist... this would be like arguing "I am glad we invented guns, because we need them to defend ourselves against people with guns"