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Are you the legal department? Do you know what your legal team does with it? Do you really trust your management team to be good stewards? The only upside to p

Are you the legal department? Do you know what your legal team does with it? Do you really trust your management team to be good stewards? The only upside to patents as originally formulated was they actually traded an implementation blueprint for exclusivity. A worthy trade. Many patents don't even do that anymore, and devolve down to "draw the rest of the owl" tier parking lots on ideas. IP attorneys have done nothing to skew away from this outcome.

account42 4y ago
The entire idea of defensive patents makes a mockery of the original intention. "Patents are so fucked that the only recourse is to get your own patents so that even though you may inftringe others' patents they likely also infringe yours and would lose as much as they can gain by enforcing their purpoted exclusivity." MAD.
- blobbers 4y ago
  Curious why you say that it mocks the original intention. If they're infringing on you, and you're infringing on them, then it nets out. By patenting your own developments, you allow yourself to legally net out. If you don't patent it, then in the eyes of the law it is not equal. Seems like its a quantification of intellectual property, which doesn't mock anything.
  - salawat 4y ago
    The issue at point with the patent system is that it was intended to incentivize innovation, and the evolution of the State of the Art. The building of large general patent portfolios by wielded by NPE's as a financial instrument does the exact opposite. So while you might "net out", said netting out is not helping society actually advance, in fact it makes it more difficult to do so as you try to avoid potholes created by patent x-1 in your own journeys to actually innovate/invent. The moment you get a self'sustaining finance engine implementable from a legal construct, it will be beaten reoeatedly, as fast and hard as possible til all the money possible can be extracted.

account42 4y ago

The entire idea of defensive patents makes a mockery of the original intention. "Patents are so fucked that the only recourse is to get your own patents so that even though you may inftringe others' patents they likely also infringe yours and would lose as much as they can gain by enforcing their purpoted exclusivity." MAD.

blobbers 4y ago
Curious why you say that it mocks the original intention. If they're infringing on you, and you're infringing on them, then it nets out. By patenting your own developments, you allow yourself to legally net out. If you don't patent it, then in the eyes of the law it is not equal. Seems like its a quantification of intellectual property, which doesn't mock anything.
- salawat 4y ago
  The issue at point with the patent system is that it was intended to incentivize innovation, and the evolution of the State of the Art. The building of large general patent portfolios by wielded by NPE's as a financial instrument does the exact opposite. So while you might "net out", said netting out is not helping society actually advance, in fact it makes it more difficult to do so as you try to avoid potholes created by patent x-1 in your own journeys to actually innovate/invent. The moment you get a self'sustaining finance engine implementable from a legal construct, it will be beaten reoeatedly, as fast and hard as possible til all the money possible can be extracted.