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Coin is infringing tens of thousands of US patents (you are, too) and quite a few companies are likely to soon have patents that attack Coin's core product in t
by WildUtah 13y ago
Coin is infringing tens of thousands of US patents (you are, too) and quite a few companies are likely to soon have patents that attack Coin's core product in the next few years.
Big companies with plenty of cash don't usually die from patent wars anymore, though. Ever since the eBay [0] case (Thanks, eBay! Thanks, Supreme Court!) it's really hard to get an injunction against a company that can afford to spend a million dollars or so on lawyers. Now it's more common to wait and see if an idea prospers and then extort some reasonable amount of cash if it does.
Really small companies don't have that kind of luxury, of course.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_Inc._v._MercExchange,_L.L.C http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_Inc._v._MercExchange,_L.L.....