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In 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
by Kliment 13y ago
In 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.