Re:Facebook Applied for Patent to Predict Who’s in House Bas...
by mygo on Thursday November 15, 2018 @09:50PM
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How often do companies patent things just so that they don't go to market?
For example even if they have no intentions to use it, they know that their competitors might, so they patent it so that their competitors can't, and thus no one can?
Does this happen? I see patents all the time that never made it to market, so I guess it's plausible. But is it even legal to patent something without intent to bring it to market?
Re:Facebook Applied for Patent to Predict Who’s in House Bas...
by deytempo on Thursday November 15, 2018 @11:21PM
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With closed source software companies, it really doesn’t matter if they infringe on a patent like this because no one can prove they are doing it without a full code audit
For example even if they have no intentions to use it, they know that their competitors might, so they patent it so that their competitors can't, and thus no one can?
Does this happen? I see patents all the time that never made it to market, so I guess it's plausible. But is it even legal to patent something without intent to bring it to market?