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Yes but the ability for a university to patent a technology is to fund future research off royalties. NPEs aren't automatically trolls but rather trolls are NPE
by delfinom 7y ago
Yes but the ability for a university to patent a technology is to fund future research off royalties. NPEs aren't automatically trolls but rather trolls are NPEs.
- autokad 7y agoI have concerns of universities and patents. I am leaning towards 'if you want to hold patents and be a non-profit, then all patents must be free use'. I could be convinced otherwise
- tomnipotent 7y ago> I could be convinced otherwise Besides the fact that innovation needs to be funded? These things don't happen in a bubble, and financial reward has historically proven to be the greatest driver of innovation.
- gumby 7y agoThe Bayh-Dole act certainly has screwed things up in the academy though.
- manquer 7y agowhat if it is funded by grants and tax payer money ?
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- delfinom 7y agoThere's nowhere near as much grants out there as people think. And tax payer money subsidizes but doesn't cover all the costs in many universities.
- acomjean 7y agoIts happened before. I can't believe its not a worse problem (source, I worked at company before it let everyone go and started litigation. Google settled.) https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/01/google-to-jarg-we-didnt-infringe-and-your-patents-stink/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/01/googl...
- Angostura 7y agoI suppose it depends if you want your taxes to increase to keep funding the universities while private companies capitalise on their research for free.
- egdod 7y agoWhat’s the difference between a troll and an NPE? I thought they meant the same thing, but that NPE was just the nicer term.
- jimktrains2 7y agoIn my head a troll is someone attacking entities for no reason but to further their own pocketbooks, and often using sleazy behavior like attacking entities who cant defend themselves with baseless lawsuit. An npe who did the initial research, continues to do research, and attacking entities that are able to defend themselves, I would be hard pressed to call a troll unless there is some other sleazy behavior.
- theobeers 7y agoThe prototypical patent troll didn’t develop the patent, but rather acquired it some time later, and for the purpose of filing lawsuits.