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Re:Patent Exhaustion and Open Source by denart2203 on Friday February 22, 2019 @02:21PM (#19228237)
While this is a nice hack the usual protections of having patents belong to an non- practicing entity would still work, i.e. this sadly won't work against patent trolls, only against honest companies.
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Re:Patent Exhaustion and Open Source by benj111 on Friday February 22, 2019 @02:27PM (#19228316)
Unless the trolls had bought the patents from a company that had assigned themselves a license.

As far as I'm aware, its quite common to retain rights to a patent portfolio, when selling it on.

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