Re:Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On A...
by larrydavid on Monday December 10, 2012 @01:04AM
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'Patent troll' doesn't mean what you think it means.
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Re:Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On A...
by devcpp on Monday December 10, 2012 @04:00AM
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Actually, it's all about slowing innovation, so it can very well be used as "enforcing bogus patents": Apple is famous for recently suing competition over abstract ideas. They don't even try to hide that fact.
Re:Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On A...
by netcan on Monday December 10, 2012 @05:20AM
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Still, its useful keeping "patent troll" separate to describe a particular type of company. The own patents (mostly acquired from dead companies), don't make anything and live off squeezing other companies. Most trollish in that they live off extorting "license fees" with the threat of legal action, rather than actually winning lawsuits. They are structured in ways that makes them unafraid of lawsuits and use that to intimidate companies that are.
Re:Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On A...
by malachismith on Monday December 10, 2012 @03:06PM
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Patent Trolling is just another means to the same end.
Re:Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On A...
by YokoZar on Monday December 10, 2012 @01:50AM
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Apple does at least build things, but it still has hundreds of bogus patents that it uses offensively to retard innovation. Perhaps we need a new derisive word to cover that behavior.