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Since Fraunhofer is a notorious patent extortionist, best to not even look at this page.
by vintermann 7mo ago
Since Fraunhofer is a notorious patent extortionist, best to not even look at this page.
- aktenlage 7mo agoCan you elaborate on this? My guess would be, that because of their status as a government backed research institute, they invent a lot, but let others do the commercialisation. So patent fees seem like a natural choice for them, to recover their investments.
- wuschel 7mo agoSeconded. Would love to hear about “best Fraunhofer practices” and fort hand experience. What could one improve how the operate?
- IshKebab 7mo agoThey had patents on MP3 that were a pain in the arse 30 years ago.
- vintermann 7mo agoTheir last lawsuit, another "submarine patent" grift by the looks of it, was dismissed as recently as 4 days ago.
- silisili 7mo agoFraunhofer has a ton of top of the line innovations. I'm glad it exists. If the only way to exist is for them to collect on patents they've produced, I don't see the issue.
- vintermann 7mo agoI'd gladly take every Fraunhofer "innovation" 5 years later if it meant Fraunhofer didn't exist. Compression patent extortionists are the scum of the earth.
- schiffern 7mo agoWho said only 5 years? How does that change if it's 20 years? Or never? The monkey's paw curls. Now they were all invented by Oracle...
- vintermann 7mo agoI can promise you that Fraudhofer has NEVER made an algorithmic innovation which would not have been "discovered" within 5 years. Of the things they have patented which are coherent enough to even qualify as an innovation, they're more likely to have been actually discovered 20 years ago by someone else. And they're pretty much worst in class, there's no practical way they're better than other algorithm patent extortionists. By the way, algorithms should not be patentable, and legally aren't patentable, but some presumably corrupt bureaucrats decided they for all practical purposes are patentable anyway.
- lava_pidgeon 7mo agoNo quite the opposite. A critic ones put this: Fraunhofer has the same of employees as Eth Zurich but just 20% of the start ups. There are better institutions for deep tech like Sprind and even max Planck institutes.