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> there is a low % of IP based startups on HN I actually can't think of any, other than video game companies, and even then, it's probably more about executio
by baddox 11y ago
> there is a low % of IP based startups on HN
I actually can't think of any, other than video game companies, and even then, it's probably more about execution/marketing/SEO than the IP itself.
- jldugger 11y agoThe university I work for has a startup incubator that is like 90 percent patent driven.
- gregpilling 11y agothe university my wife works for spends a lot of time and effort promoting their patent portfolio, but I see little evidence in the real world.
- bad_user 11y agoSo patent trolls?
- superuser2 11y agoUniversity IP based endeavors tend to be non-software areas where patents are legitimately results of very expensive research endeavors staffed by multiple PhDs, not "using a database engine to store a wish list." They do resemble patent trolls in that most of their business is licensing, not directly making products. However it is more based on selling: "Hey we have this cool technology, license it!" rather than showing up out of nowhere and extorting settlement.
- reagency 11y agoMore that the university gets a cut by licensing patents to the employee inventors, in exchange for incubation support. Not trolling the general business public. For example, Google paid Stanford something like $1B in exchange for the patents of work developed by Googlers at the university.
- hyperpallium 11y agogoogle (pagerank) - though some contrarians think the algorithm wasn't the main factor.
- reagency 11y agoThe algorithm was public domain already. Googles innovation was in executing the idea on the web.
- hyperpallium 11y agopagerank is patented http://www.google.com/patents/US6285999 http://www.google.com/patents/US6285999