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Unlike trademarks, you can hold a patent without having to defend it. You are not legally required to use it. So the choice to use it is yours. The logic behind
by rgoddard 15y ago
Unlike trademarks, you can hold a patent without having to defend it. You are not legally required to use it. So the choice to use it is yours. The logic behind defensive patents is similar to creating nuclear weapons as a deterrent and the theory of mutually assured destruction.
- damoncali 15y agoExcept the superpowers with all the nukes routinely fling them at each other. Where is the deterrence? If IBM is not deterred by Microsoft's patents, why would they be deterred by mine?
- teach 15y agoI think you're mistaken about superpowers flinging nukes at each other. Only two nuclear weapons have ever been used in war, and that was 65 years ago.