Re:Google's New Patents
by ovi256 on Monday August 01, 2011 @10:38AM
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What if you genuinely innovate, patent your innovation and hope to exploit your IP ? One or more likely, several, pool members will sue you, force you to join the pool and thus destroy your advantage. If they have an established manufacturing division and supply chain, they can churn out your gadget before you even come up with a name. If your innovation is in any way disruptive to their business model, you'll have plenty of legal broadfires thrown your way just to make you go away.
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The "you" innovates and gets a patent to restrict others from exploiting your innovation.
The "pool members" innovate and get patents to restrict "you" from exploiting their innovation.
Can you oppose one of these actions but not the other?
> One or more likely, several, pool members will sue you, force you to join the pool and thus destroy your advantage.
What are they suing you over, if your work is truly "innovative"?
Re:Google's New Patents
by streptomycin on Monday August 01, 2011 @11:11AM
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A trivial/obvious detail, which unfortunately describes the majority of software patents.
Re:Google's New Patents
by Kallikrates on Monday August 01, 2011 @10:40AM
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If it was truly innovative how would your technology exist in the patent pool?
Nothing exists in a vacuum. You will presumably infringe on other patents in the pool for dumb stuff everyone needs like search boxes, buttons, and scroll bars. Put one in the wrong place or put the wrong label on it and you're suddenly infringing on a "one click" patent or something equally asinine.