Putting Press Releases Online? Patented Lots Of Small Companies Sued

Posted by yanw on Thursday July 22, 2010 @05:05PM
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Re:Putting Press Releases Online? Patented Lots Of Small Com... by ufomuffin on Thursday July 22, 2010 @05:22PM (#1539578)

Agh, the patent system should have rules that state that if you're not active you can't sue, or something similar. This is really BS

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Re:Putting Press Releases Online? Patented Lots Of Small Com... by hga on Thursday July 22, 2010 @09:17PM (#1540088)

But how about the archetypal inventor of a gadget suitable only for licensing, e.g. the intermittent windshield wiper guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kearns)?

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