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>However, think of trying to legitimately sue Microsoft, or Apple or Google for using your patent. You have their bills to worry about too and they can out-lawy
by learc83 14y ago
>However, think of trying to legitimately sue Microsoft, or Apple or Google for using your patent. You have their bills to worry about too and they can out-lawyer almost everyone.
The bill addresses that by applying the losing plaintiff pays only to non practicing entities. It specifically excludes original inventors.
- jrs235 14y agoWhat about the fact that the original inventor is actually a human being that through an employment "contract" agrees to assign and transfer any patents to the employing company? How does this idea affect things?
- learc83 14y agoThe employing company would then be the original assignee, and also exempt from being classified as an NPE.
- OGinparadise 14y agoAs a non-lawyer, I read the bill and found it surprisingly very short. As usual the devil is in the details. Probably judges will be able to fill in the many details, go all the way to SCOTUS and then back to where we were. The easiest way would be to fund USPTO so they stop issuing bogus patents.