Defending your app from copies and clones

Re:Defending your app from copies and clones by mankash666 on Friday February 23, 2018 @02:49PM (#16448836)

I guess Marco really really LOVES assholes. His whole career revolves around Apple/iOS, a company legendary for it's frivolous patents & history of enforcing them vindictively when the competition's execution poses a threat.

How are copyrights or trademarks ANY different? Together, they constitute essential tools in the knowledge/service economy. Demonizing patents but favoring the other two is ignorance on Marco's behalf - no one wants frivolous patents clogging the patent office, courts or legal departments of companies.

Apt advice would be to carefully research recent verdicts and legislation around patents, and only apply for ones that merit the designation (yes - this is very subjective).

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Re:Defending your app from copies and clones by moogleii on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:13PM (#16449680)

Maybe it was just me, but I got the sense the target audience of his piece was individual or small teams. Hence, "even if you get one ($20,000+ later), you can’t afford to use it against any adversary big enough to matter."

These comments citing Apple and Google with their effective use of patents as some sort of counter argument seem to have missed the mark. Those guys are certainly able to afford $20k, and they can certainly afford to take on any adversary big enough to matter.

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Re:Defending your app from copies and clones by repsilat on Friday February 23, 2018 @04:05PM (#16449617)

Trademarks are quite different to the other two -- they protect consumers as much as they protect producers.

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