IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties

Re:IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties by throwaway894345 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:06PM (#22558233)

I guess I always assumed this is more or less how it worked everywhere, at least anywhere that respect intellectual property. Is this not the case? What other models are out there, and which ones work better?

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Re:IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties by noir_lord on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:09PM (#22558252)

EU doesn't allow software patents.

The world hasn't ended so far.

https://fsfe.org/campaigns/swpat/swpat.en.html for a decent overview

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Re:IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties by Ace17 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:34PM (#22558608)

In practice, EU already does allow them. The software invention just needs to be disguised as a machine. Industrial property lawyers know very well how to do that and it's unfortunately very common.

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Re:IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties by azinman2 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:27PM (#22558494)

Too be fair, the EU also never managed to build a large scale software industry. I’m not saying this is only because of patents, but it’s not a great example to uphold.

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Re:IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:57PM (#22561071)

Someone should tell Spotify, SAP, Sage, Nokia, and ARM they're not large scale.

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Re:IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties by azinman2 on Friday March 13, 2020 @02:18AM (#22565173)

Compare that to just Bay Area alone or one Alibaba and then tell me about large scale...

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Re:IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties by easytiger on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:28PM (#22558516)

The EU once upon a time was aggressively trying to implement them but they were canned by members . It's only a matter of time I feel before it is attempted again

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