Re:Winning the Blackbird Battle
by ryandrake on Thursday February 14, 2019 @06:52PM
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> It's hard to draw a legal line between a few lawyers with some bad patents and a garage inventor struggling to make his idea profitable.
You don’t necessarily have to draw the line. One potential legislative solution would be to simply throw up our hands, admit we can’t stop one without stopping the other, then deliberately choose to sacrifice the (vanishingly small number of) good actors in order to get rid of the huge number of bad actors.
How many lone garage inventors are out there fighting big companies over their legit inventions vs. the number of ridiculous patent troll cases?
Re:Winning the Blackbird Battle
by wbl on Thursday February 14, 2019 @07:29PM
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Industries like the chemical and pharma industries would look very different without patents. A place like CISRO would not be able to exist absent patents.
You don’t necessarily have to draw the line. One potential legislative solution would be to simply throw up our hands, admit we can’t stop one without stopping the other, then deliberately choose to sacrifice the (vanishingly small number of) good actors in order to get rid of the huge number of bad actors.
How many lone garage inventors are out there fighting big companies over their legit inventions vs. the number of ridiculous patent troll cases?