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What if someone could get a patent on "a method of starting a business whose sole purpose is acquiring many patents and then suing large companies"? Could they
by christiangenco 14y ago
What if someone could get a patent on "a method of starting a business whose sole purpose is acquiring many patents and then suing large companies"? Could they destroy all patent trolls?
- kevingadd 14y agoYou'd spend more money suing the patent troll organizations than you'd ever recover, because they could just close up shop and move on, being non-practicing entities with no real assets or holdings.
- chris_wot 14y agoIn other words, you put that entity out of business. Sounds like success!
- pi18n 14y agoNo, there was an article recently on HN about how Intellectual Ventures "loads" a shell company by transferring a patent to it only days before filing the dispute. If you put the shell out of business they lose only the single patent (if that). They don't care about the shell, it's like an eyelash of the giant.
- chrisbennet 14y agoThis is close: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/01/157743897/can-you-get-a-patent-on-being-a-patent-troll http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/01/157743897/can-you-... (In 2007 IBM and Haliburton filed for patents on being patent troll.)
- nuclear_eclipse 14y agoIBM did it.
- minikomi 14y agoNice idea. I wonder how technical sounding you'd have to get to push it through. "Issuing a legal claim over a telecommunications network"?