He says he's the founder of priceline.com and 11th on the list of living patent holders. Good for him. Sure, it's not objective, but there's no such thing as un

He says he's the founder of priceline.com and 11th on the list of living patent holders. Good for him. Sure, it's not objective, but there's no such thing as unbiased opinion. It sounds like he thinks one problem with the current system is that, even if you do use a patent as it's intended (license it properly), you can still get taken to court by someone else for infringing on their similar patent. Using patents is like walking across a minefield. Small businesses just do not (and should not) play in the patent game because of legal risk. If his company provides insurance that using their patents protect you against liability against violating other patents, it sounds like a great idea. Like the "anti-patent troll". Like how some app developers are being sued for using some feature of Apple's SDK. [1] Imagine if Apple provided free insurance against all such lawsuits. [1] http://www.macstories.net/news/lodsys-starts-filing-lawsuit-against-app-developers/ http://www.macstories.net/news/lodsys-starts-filing-lawsuit-...