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How the heck do you BUY a patent and sell licenses to multiple third parties? How does this maintain the spirit of patents where we encourage innovators? Say
by maeon3 15y ago
How the heck do you BUY a patent and sell licenses to multiple third parties? How does this maintain the spirit of patents where we encourage innovators?
Say I want to build a new phone in the shape of a rectangle, black, with beveled edges? oops I have to purchase licenses from a gigantic enterprise which has the patents on "rectangle", "black" and "beveled edges".
Well, maybe it's too much work to build a new piece of technology, I can't make it work with all the fire hoops to jump through! Guess I'll get into selling apples on the side of the road, that is until somebody patents that.
- praptak 15y agoSelling actual apples is safe (for now) but you better not have "apples" in your company name.
- dextorious 15y ago"""How does this maintain the spirit of patents where we encourage innovators?""" You think anyone in Congress cares about the spirit of the law? Once a body of patents exists and is owned by big lobbying companies, it's all about protecting them. Similar to the copyright protection, that just keeps expanding to the whims of Disney et al.