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Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple by cycloptic on Saturday October 12, 2019 @01:48PM (#21234889)
>Be acquired by a larger firm that can enforce your patents.

You mean like Apple? What other firm is going to acquire a startup with products like this, which are so tightly tied into MacOS/iOS?

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Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple by briandear on Saturday October 12, 2019 @06:13PM (#21236741)
Wacom. Avid. Adobe. There are a lot of companies that would buy tech like Astropad. Adobe could have integrated it into CS for instance and it would have been a value-add for that audience.
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Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple by cycloptic on Saturday October 12, 2019 @11:16PM (#21238116)
Even if the software itself ticks a nice box as a feature add to some other product, the patents wouldn't have fit into the portfolios of any of those companies. To make it a profitable investment they would have had to pre-meditate a licensing deal... with Apple.
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