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Why are you even allowed to sell patents? If they are there to protect inventors and allow profit from invention why can you sell them? If you fail to commerci
by serge2k 15y ago
Why are you even allowed to sell patents?
If they are there to protect inventors and allow profit from invention why can you sell them? If you fail to commercialize a product from an invention then the patent protection on it should be dropped. A company that buys a patent didn't invent, didn't innovate. Why should they get protection for someone elses work?
- jwcacces 15y agoBecause sometimes you have a really good idea, and the ability to make it on a small scale, but you need help getting it perfect and making it big. In such a case, it's often advantageous to join up with someone else, get investments, start a company, and sell your patents to that company. That's just one way the ability to sell patents is a good thing.
- kenjackson 15y agoYou have to write some relatively complex law to prohibit it. For example, Google bought Motorola Mobility -- do they get those patents? What if they then spin off everything, but the patents? Can they do that? Whom do the patents stay with? Can I sell you my company, but not the patents? As an employee, when I grant my employer my patents, have I sold them? Etc...