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If you're a small innovator facing off against IP theft by a large company, it might not look like such good news. Now you have to worry about their lawyers ra
by rodgerd 13y ago
If you're a small innovator facing off against IP theft by a large company, it might not look like such good news. Now you have to worry about their lawyers racking up huge bills and convincing the judge you should pay them.
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- Kliment 13y agoIn that situation, you're already fucked beyond all hope, and you cannot win. Typical strategy is to countersue you for infringement of something else. Patents afford exactly zero benefits to a low-resource party in all cases except acquisition (of patent or patent-holder) in which case they become weapons wielded by the bad people again.
- rayiner 13y ago> Patents afford exactly zero benefits to a low-resource party in all cases except acquisition In many (most?) acquisitions, patents are incorporated in the valuation of companies that are to be acquired, even when the purchaser is a giant entity that could probably beat the target in a patent litigation by countersuing for something else.
- Kliment 13y agoYes, precisely, at which point the low-resource entity has just given them an extra weapon to terrorize the world with.
- DanBC 13y agoLoser doesn't pay all expenses - they have to be reasonable and proportionate. People have to show good faith attempt to reduce costs.
- dredmorbius 13y agoDepends. There are cases in which small inventors have prevailed, others in which they haven't. Filo Farnsworth comes to mind among the latter.