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The simple fix would be to give you a grace period after the acquisition of the patent (if you file or purchase) to actually put it to use or else you lose your
by edvinbesic 13y ago
The simple fix would be to give you a grace period after the acquisition of the patent (if you file or purchase) to actually put it to use or else you lose your claim to it.
This would abolish the patent trolls as well as stop companies from doing preemptive filing because its "good practice".
But maybe that's a too simplistic view of the situation.
- pbhjpbhj 13y agoThere is, in UK law, a clause that allows the patent office to force the grant of a license for a reasonable price. This is supposed to stop people from offering onerous licensing terms or simply sitting on the tech. The thing here is that patent terms are too long for the rate of change of technology nowadays. About 7 years seems like a reasonable term to me. An alternative to limiting years would be having a vastly increasing rate of increase on the patent maintenance fees per year for granted patents; particularly if it could be related to the revenue of any products that it is in. Then at least the public purse would benefit - from the monopoly the public are giving - in proportion to the benefit the private company is receiving..