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Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:23AM (#21450893)
In general you need resources to go to market. John Doe makes a new widget goes to CompanyA with his invention, CompanyA just copy it. John gets nothing, CompanyA gets the profits.

How is that good?

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Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by lstodd on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:06AM (#21462680)
Same way it works right now - John Doe forms a company, gets it on Kickstarter, YC, whatever, gobs VC money, then sells his company to CompanyA. Everyone gets profit.

What's not to like and where are patents in this picture?

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