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Does anyone know why the defensive patents were eliminated? If Amazon is being honest with the goal of this then that would have been perfect.
by chrisBob 12y ago
Does anyone know why the defensive patents were eliminated? If Amazon is being honest with the goal of this then that would have been perfect.
- dnautics 12y agodefensive patents were not eliminated. There is still, for example, RPX corporation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPX_Corporation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPX_Corporation) which does "active" defensive patent protection in a for-profit model. What was, however, eliminated, was the Statutory Invetion Registration: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Statutory_Invention_Registration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Statutory_Inventi...) For this reason: "Since the adoption of the eighteen-month publication procedure, the use of SIR has decreased substantially, and the America Invents Act eliminated this tool for inventors." (http://www.aiarulemaking.com/rulemaking-topics/group-3/repeal-statutory-invention-registration.php http://www.aiarulemaking.com/rulemaking-topics/group-3/repea...)