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Just to put a stake in the ground, I mean patent trolls specifically, when I call out bad NPE behavior. Not all NPE behavior is bad, and I only hope to limit th
by spacemanmatt 12y ago
Just to put a stake in the ground, I mean patent trolls specifically, when I call out bad NPE behavior. Not all NPE behavior is bad, and I only hope to limit the bad behavior.
Wikipedia says: Non-practicing entities are generally not considered 'patent trolls' when they offer their patented technologies to licensees in advance, such as individual inventors, university research laboratories, development firms, and licensing agents that offer enforcement and negotiation services on behalf of patent owners.
I think that's a pretty reasonable statement.
- chongli 12y agoJust to put a stake in the ground, I mean patent trolls specifically, when I call out bad NPE behavior. Not all NPE behavior is bad, and I only hope to limit the bad behavior. How do you do that, legally speaking? What is the fundamental technical difference between our hypothetical aerospace engineer suing Boeing and some troll suing Vizio? It's not enough to say that the patents of a troll might be invalid; invalidating patents is extremely expensive in court.
- mejari 12y agoAt that point you're just saying "trolls are bad", because you're not offering any way for the law to differentiate between a "good" NPE (our lone inventor) and a "bad" NPE (the trolls). How do you limit the bad without also limiting the good?