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Would be interesting to be more specific - LightSail actually sounds like the kind of situation people are more likely support patents in: non-obvious research
by dodo53 15y ago
Would be interesting to be more specific - LightSail actually sounds like the kind of situation people are more likely support patents in:
non-obvious research work leading to large improvements over existing methods; presumably it woudld be considerably easier to reverse engineer if you had to the physical device. And I imagine company could productively use huge investment to have huge impact but investment might be hard without reassurance of IP.
So you say you have secrets - are there patents on the mechanism itself? Did investors request/care about those patents?
Maybe is different in this case cos I wouldn't be surprised if author actually was happy for this technology to be successful even if some other company made more money out of it.
Also for anyone who hasn't, read around rest of the website also!
- DaniFong 15y agoWe have several patents issued. Unfortunately, as I explain how law shapes the business landscape" one cannot simply choose not to patent their work; others can patent it, or patent "around" it. So we have been forced to play this game -- and we win the games we are forced to play. There are several fields though, where the innovations necessary to make a great product are scattered around many different companies. Unfortunately the apparatus today makes it difficult to really get the initial consensus to collect the licenses to test the market.
- dodo53 15y agoInteresting, I've not heard much about multiple patent licensing deadlock before but sounds like it could be common.