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I like the idea. One problem would be spiking fees. Company A licenses a patent from company B for the yearly fee of $1 per instance. Company A builds a succ
by phamilton 15y ago
I like the idea. One problem would be spiking fees. Company A licenses a patent from company B for the yearly fee of $1 per instance. Company A builds a successful product with 100k units sold. The next year, Company B decides to declare a 10x value on the patent. Company A, committed to the technology, either has to pay it or start over.
I guess this could be solved by long term lock ins at specific fees.
- beagle3 15y agoExactly. If you build on someone else's (intellectual) property, you better have an agreement with them. However, the ip tax would make it harder to claim an idea is worth $400,000,000 (eolas, i4i) unless it makes sense, because maintaining that claim would cost $4M a year.