Re:Why First Round Capital funded a lawsuit
by paborden on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @08:46PM
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Question: what's the story with the processes Best Buy developed that were pirated from TechForward? Does this mean they can't use them? Or can they? How does one prevent Best Buy from re-developing something similar going forward? After all, it won't take long for BB to make back their $27 million "investment."
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Re:Why First Round Capital funded a lawsuit
by unreal37 on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @08:47PM
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They discontinued the program after 18 months.
Re:Why First Round Capital funded a lawsuit
by recoiledsnake on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @09:05PM
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Okay that makes a lot of sense now. I was wondering why there was nothing about a high ongoing royalty rate mentioned in the article. If even trivial patents can get ~3.5% on revenues, such blatant theft of actual files and ideas should get substantially more.