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They are ending support, but they still own all the associated patents around it, correct? What if there was a corporation that bought out every entrant involv
by tareqak 3y ago
They are ending support, but they still own all the associated patents around it, correct?
What if there was a corporation that bought out every entrant involving new technology (not necessarily monopolizing their already dominant verticals, but other new inventions/ideas)? They either have a winner, or they stifle innovation in corresponding area for the lifetime of any associated patents.
- parl_match 3y ago> What if there was a corporation that bought out every entrant involving new technology (not necessarily monopolizing their already dominant verticals, but other new inventions/ideas)? They either have a winner, or they stifle innovation in corresponding area for the lifetime of any associated patents. There are companies like this: patent trolls. That's why the big tech companies all have patent sharing agreements now.
- tareqak 3y agoIt sounds like a corporation could impede the humanity/progress of countries that respect these patents by patent_lifetime * number_of_patents so long as they have the money to do so.
- skinner927 3y agoThat’s literally a feature
- thfuran 3y agoThat's explicitly the opposite of the intent of patents.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoYou do realize you are describing the exact thing that's currently plaguing the software industry, among others?
- parl_match 3y agoThat's literally what a patent troll is