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This is much closer to how the system is suppose to work. You invent a technology and allow the consumer to benefit from it by licensing it out to anyone who wa
by kapitalx 15y ago
This is much closer to how the system is suppose to work. You invent a technology and allow the consumer to benefit from it by licensing it out to anyone who wants to use the invention in their product.
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- broadpatents 15y agoSuppose I am a company that makes a technology. I then decide it's in my interest to patent it. In creating this patent, it's in my best interest to make it as broad as possible, because - It allows me to get licensing revenue from more companies who may not have implementations that are exactly like mine. - It hides some of the details of my implementation, keeping some of the "special sauce" secret, while still protecting it. It is thus my goal to make my patented as broad and obfuscated as possible, but still valid. The incentive structure is lined up wrong. It should be set up so that the easier it is to turn the patent into an implementation, the more worth it should have. Of course, that's a difficult problem to solve.