Google found guilty of infringing Sonos patents

Re:Google found guilty of infringing Sonos patents by fny on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:04AM (#28273340)

Can you provide justification? In my view, they work when they promote competition and adequately compensate innovation. I know these are broad requirements, but I think that they're better than abolishing patents altogether.

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Re:Google found guilty of infringing Sonos patents by alpaca128 on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:26AM (#28273462)

This whole "competition" idea turns into the exact opposite when giant corporations buy others and gain all their patents. Motorola was bought because it came with over 10k patents, that is guaranteed to hurt competition.

I think patents make sense to some degree, but they should expire much quicker and should not be transferrable.

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Re:Google found guilty of infringing Sonos patents by bigfudge on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:30AM (#28273491)

Or transferable once? Otherwise small actors never benefit because their parents can just be ignored by Corps with big legal teams

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Re:Google found guilty of infringing Sonos patents by fny on Monday August 23, 2021 @10:14AM (#28276031)

I don't disagree that the current system functions well: I'm just saying abolishing them is not the answer.

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Re:Google found guilty of infringing Sonos patents by burnished on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:51AM (#28273857)

Can you demonstrate that it actually works that way?

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