Ask HN: HELP Patent troll cruising my industry. What to do?

Re:Ask HN: HELP Patent troll cruising my industry. What to do? by tedjedbed on Saturday January 10, 2009 @04:04AM (#427825)

Sure, but I think there's a big difference between an innovative company actively designing and licensing technology–and a company being formed solely for the purpose of sitting on patents until they can sue a company for infringement.

Maybe I'm incorrect, but in the web 1.0 days, it seems patents were approved which are overly-broad ...

when you're simply conducting industry-specific business over the internet using standard technology and media, how does that pass the non-obvious test?

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Re:Ask HN: HELP Patent troll cruising my industry. What to do? by jmackinn on Saturday January 10, 2009 @01:43PM (#428159)

Have you considered the idea of licensing the patent from them?

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Re:Ask HN: HELP Patent troll cruising my industry. What to do? by opticksversi on Saturday January 10, 2009 @02:04PM (#428188)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=427621

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Re:Ask HN: HELP Patent troll cruising my industry. What to do? by jmackinn on Saturday January 10, 2009 @02:17PM (#428210)

Thanks. From reading those comments I should clarify my comment a bit more. I don't suggest they make any contact, I am just wondering if they have considered the idea of licensing. I think that broad sweeping software patents are a result of the patent system not truly understanding modern computers but I do think there is an important place for the patent system to protect developers of new technologies. Sometimes, I believe that the idea of licensing gets lost behind the abuse of software patents in general.

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