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Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by breck on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:37PM (#21448786)
Thank you! Heroic work. Any thoughts on how we can expand this effort? My thinking is we need to get rid of Intellectual Monopoly laws in general. I think an intermediate transition to some type of “bonus” structure for patents instead of Monopolies might work, if we need a way to ease the transition, but everywhere I look IM laws cause more harm than good (unless you are in the select group that makes the inflated sums).
Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by kramerdj on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:45PM (#21448838)
This was our attempt at contributing to a solution, not sure it solves the whole problem. Patents do serve a purpose, so you don't want to throw out the baby, it's as much an easily-abusable litigation system. Enough random behavior and long-term strategic behavior may make trolls think twice before setting up shop if it's not an easy thing.
Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by FpUser on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:58PM (#21448905)
Patents in general yes (assuming patent office really validates patents instead of rubber stamping ones from big companies).

Software patents, business methods and other fishy stuff - I would pretty much love those eliminated completely.

Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by erklik on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:50PM (#21448861)
I'd say there needs to be an easier/quicker way to fight the patent trolls in the court of law. The fees for the fight are exorbitant, leading the parties to instead make a settlement and the trolls "winning"