We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won

Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by egdod on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:45AM (#21452271)

What I mean is that it isn’t against the rules. You’re welcome to think it’s a little shady (and I won’t disagree), but it’s not improper.

What’s improper about creating liquidity in the market for inventions? And patents don’t require the holder to make or sell anything—they give the holder the right to prevent others from doing so.

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Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by rhinoceraptor on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:16PM (#21456783)

There's a big difference between legal and ethical.

And it's not creating liquidity in the market for inventions. It's creating liquidity in state-sanctioned and enforced monopoly rights of inventions.

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Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by egdod on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @11:18PM (#21459674)

Without that monopoly, there wouldn’t be much of a market for inventions.

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Re:We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won by ric2b on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @08:11PM (#21469460)

Of course there would, there's a lot of money to be made from inventing something, even without a patent.

And the biggest companies in the world aren't the biggest because they have patent protected monopolies.

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