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Re:Yahoo: Patent Sell-Off Isn’t a Fire Sale by ori_b on Friday June 10, 2016 @12:53PM (#11877748)
> There is no way that my improvement to the derivatives market would have ever been worth my time if I couldn't sell the patent to financial institutions.

Not even if you could grant them a license, but not ownership?

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Re:Yahoo: Patent Sell-Off Isn’t a Fire Sale by cloudjacker on Friday June 10, 2016 @02:23PM (#11878669)
It was an option.

I probably wouldn't have pursued the patent if that was the only option. Unless the costs to filing patents were also cheaper. Lots of variables that this simple discussion doesn't consider.

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