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Hello - we are a big company with an infinite amount of lawyers We are claiming, without having to show any evidence, that you are violating one of our patents
by nobody314159 15y ago
Hello - we are a big company with an infinite amount of lawyers
We are claiming, without having to show any evidence, that you are violating one of our patents but we aren't to going to tell you which one.
If you pay us money we will leave you alone.
If it turns out we were lying we still get to keep your money and there is no penalty on us.
And we don't need patent reform?
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- tsotha 15y agoWell, I'm assuming they have patents that apply, because apparently there are lots of things that are covered by dozens of patents. Broadly written patents are easy to get and very difficult to break. That's not a workable state of affairs. Yeah, we need patent reform. Hell, I'd go even farther than that. I'd get rid of them altogether. The system we have today works at cross purposes to the original purpose of patents - it discourages innovation, because if you come out with a new product odds are it's covered under a hundred broadly written patents. Why bother, unless you're a huge company with a large patent portfolio of your own?