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Curious: what might the unintended consequences be of making patents non-transferable?
by Spartan-S63 5y ago
Curious: what might the unintended consequences be of making patents non-transferable?
- denton-scratch 5y agoOnly entities with the money to defend patents would bother to acquire them. Owning a patent would become useless to small-fry. So only large entities would own patents. The solution is to stop registering stupid patents, and (this would require a massive effort) invalidate all the stupid patents that are already on file. Or perhaps, change the law so that if an alleged infringer turns out to have "infringed" an invalid patent, all costs go to the alleged infringer. That would encourage people to fight patent trolls, rather than just roll over. [Edit] I suppose that would only work if the petitioning NPE were required to deposit a bond with the court.