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He calls it the broken nature of the patent system, but I'm sitting here wondering why the creators of that technology shouldn't be handsomely rewarded for it,
by IAmNotACellist 2y ago
He calls it the broken nature of the patent system, but I'm sitting here wondering why the creators of that technology shouldn't be handsomely rewarded for it, for a period of time? It's not like they're sitting on it (Creative Labs comes to mind), but rather releasing displays that just make devices cost more than they otherwise will.
A similar thing happened the tech behind Wacom devices--they enjoyed market dominance, the patent ran out, and now we have super cheap high-precision digital art devices.
- dartharva 2y agoFrom further down the thread, it seems it has been well beyond two decades and the original patents are already long expired. They are not playing fair - they are evergreening their patents with marginal changes which is illegal in countries where IP laws aren't a joke unlike the US.