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Qualcomm accusing someone of greedy anti-competitive use of intellectual property is quite amusing !
by liotier 4y ago
Qualcomm accusing someone of greedy anti-competitive use of intellectual property is quite amusing !
- brookst 4y agoIt’s very annoying when someone steals your business model!
- FpUser 4y agoEvery business model was "stolen" at some point.
- TOMDM 4y agoMostly just the successful ones
- brookst 4y agoYes, of course. But humans are territorial and possessive, and it aggravates us when someone “steals” our ideas. The iterative and derivative nature of those ideas notwithstanding.
- stoplying1 4y agoSome humans, maybe.
- exikyut 4y ago"HEY I'M WALKING HERE" *smoosh*
- Workaccount2 4y agoI interviewed at one of Qualcomm's satellite locations, and when you walk into the receptionist's desk area, the walls are totally covered in golden plaques. Floor to ceiling, wall to wall. Each golden plaque is one of their patents. I almost fell over myself when I realized it.
- trothamel 4y agoWhen I went to IBM to give a talk, back in grad school, there was a wall like that. The caption was "One Year of Patents".
- giobox 4y agoThis is sadly not all that unusual at US technology businesses, you will see it at far smaller firms too. Even Tesla had a patent wall in their lobby until their famous "we don't do patents" post. I've seen the same thing at multiple shitty enterprise software firms as well. Some businesses even demonstrate their spurious number of patents issued annually as some kind of metric for innovation - always a bad sign. I've also been on the receiving end of the annual "we want to pump the patent count metric" email, when company wide email just blasts for suggestions of anything whatsoever we could patent to up a pointless integer. > https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you