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"How did the auto industry resolve this?" Perhaps the auto industry's period of innovation and establishment happened during a more rational patent regime.
by xer0 15y ago
"How did the auto industry resolve this?"
Perhaps the auto industry's period of innovation and establishment happened during a more rational patent regime.
- Duff 15y agoNot really. Google "George Selden patent"
- xer0 15y agoInteresting. Then according to this result, http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsseldona.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsseldona.htm , one rational response to patent trolls (established and loved, or merely trollish) is to not pay, to fight.
- commieneko 15y agoThe early automobile and airplane industries were full of all out patent wars. The airplane patents problem were only settled quickly by World War I and an act of Congress. Early 20th century patents only lasted, I believe, 17 years, so all those particular basic fights are long in the past. We're just living through the opening rounds of this battle.