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The patent system is broken. There should be some restrictions where a company cannot make money from suing based on a patent without them actually producing th
by Cort3z 13y ago
The patent system is broken. There should be some restrictions where a company cannot make money from suing based on a patent without them actually producing the product themselves. That way you know that the people owning the patent at least are capable of making what they have a patent for. If that is not the case then they should expedite the expiration of the patent where they would loose it in a certain amount of years if they were not able to produce that product in that time.
The patent is meant to be a legal monopoly for outstanding innovations for a set amount of time, not as a revenue models for lawyers.
- nimble 13y ago> outstanding innovations Which proposal from your first paragraph is going to ensure outstanding-ness of inventions? I recall company lawyers making the rounds asking us to write down any possible inventions among the things we'd already built. I don't remember the lawyers ever asking whether those possible inventions were outstanding.
- alok-g 13y agoWhat happens if a claimed outstanding innovation is not seen as outstanding by the majority, leading to the innovating entity running out of money and closing down, and then someone realizing the true value of the invention five years later (and reaping monetary benefits of it)?