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Patents definitely have problems - I agree. But they are here, now, and I hear patents are crushing startups. This article just presents that sobering reality
by rfreytag 14y ago
Patents definitely have problems - I agree.
But they are here, now, and I hear patents are crushing startups. This article just presents that sobering reality and how an innovator might address the patent threat until this mess is fixed - which looks to be taking a while.
- Jare 14y ago> how an innovator might address the patent threat until this mess is fixed I have no issue with anyone claiming patents defensively, but he's trying to justify having a claim and an exclusive right to an obvious idea. THAT is trolling no matter how much he calls himself an innovator, a grassroots developer or whatever. He's part of the problem, not the solution.
- rfreytag 14y agoI totally see your point. I gather you would not accept that when others are claiming obvious patents one has to as well until some higher power changes the rules lest one be trolled into nonexistence? I think the guy is being pragmatic - it isn't great - but it is pragmatic. He may well be using the exclusive power of patents in ways that are anti-competitive. He doesn't say - you are right about that. Patents are very likely to be a waste of money unless the patent laws are 'fixed' somehow to preserve the value of the existing patents - at least until they expire. And for a lot of people that wouldn't be a 'fix' at all.