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yet US has no problem with one company owning the majority of a market ( MS , Google ... ) so much for anti trust ... Small Companies could fund a non profit to

• mcherm 14y ago
  I'm not saying that the antitrust laws are written the way I would write them if I were king, but they are rational, if you understand where they are coming from. They prohibit independent actors from colluding to form a monopoly, but they do not prohibit a company from being successful enough in the marketplace to become an effective monopoly. However, if a company IS that successful, then the laws restrict what the company with monopoly power can do (for instance, they cannot leverage that monopoly to increase their power and market share in a different area of business). My guess is that funding a nonprofit, something like the EFF or the ACLU but focused specifically on providing legal representation to those sued by patent trolls, would probably be allowed under the law as long as the nonprofit assisted ANY company attacked by a patent troll, not only contributors. If it assisted only contributors, perhaps it could work as some sort of legal insurance policy?
• vidarh 14y ago
  > Small Companies could fund a non profit to help them against trolls, would it be illegal ? Someone could set up an insurance company specialising in patent-troll insurance.