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Re:Winning the Blackbird Battle by pnw_hazor on Thursday February 14, 2019 @07:51PM (#19167592)
Defensive patents are for making cross-licensing deals when IBM, Apple, and so on, come calling with their stack of patents to demand a slice of your revenue.
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Re:Winning the Blackbird Battle by johnmaguire2013 on Thursday February 14, 2019 @08:00PM (#19167636)
Right... The parent's point was that saying "we see the value in the patent system: it allows us to defend ourselves when others use the patent system against us" doesn't really make logical sense.
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Re:Winning the Blackbird Battle by cortesoft on Thursday February 14, 2019 @10:06PM (#19168154)
Right, but you wouldn't need defensive patents if patents didn't exist... this would be like arguing "I am glad we invented guns, because we need them to defend ourselves against people with guns"
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