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The university I work for has a startup incubator that is like 90 percent patent driven.
by jldugger 11y ago
The 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.