Patent Trolls
Technology industry hits out at ‘patent trolls’
This is an interesting article about the current state of the US Patent System. In general, I certainly think that there should be a government sanctioned method of granting exclusive rights to use a certain invention for a period of time. However, once the system starts to be abused, it ruins it for everyone. Patents for the mere purpose of using the legal system to bludgeon people or companies over the head, are certainly abuse in my book. This is of particular interest right now since I’m currently involved with several IP lawyers in order to submit a patent application.
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Posted by Allen Bauer on June 3rd, 2004 under Uncategorized |
July 30th, 2004 at 12:34 am
What is the purpose of law ? justice ? no it’s for defending the monopolists. Why ? Because it is them that do the law. Just 4c logic
August 5th, 2004 at 6:03 pm
this is crap i dont understand nethin
August 9th, 2004 at 1:24 am
Two Other Models
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Large corporations file huge numbers of patents not because they intend to develope them commercially but in order to prevent others from developing them. There interest here is just to preserve the status-quo…
Another, model is to form a start-up in order
the develope IP which you can patent and technology which you expect others to discover
in the near future and develope. I.e. simple
and useful ideas, but nothing revolutionary
required. When the patents are filed to shut
down your organisation and wait for others to
re-discover the same idea and then develope it commercially. When these users have started to make some money out of the technology, you
re-appear and take legal action.
Problem:
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The whole purpose of IP laws is to encourage
people to take risks in order to develope
technology. However, a number of ways in which
these laws can be applied actually hinders IP development.