Google, Intellectual Ventures case over patents ends in U.S. mistrial

Posted by kjhughes on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @10:36PM
from the reuters.com dept.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/06/us-google-iv-mistrial-idUSBREA1500Y20140206

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Re:Google, Intellectual Ventures case over patents ends in U... by adoptadragon on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @10:41PM (#7188600)

There's got to be a way to bring this system back to serve the purpose for which it was designed - encouraging innovation and not stifling it in courtrooms and endless litigation by corporations and moguls. Or maybe I'm just being overly optimistic here :(

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Re:Google, Intellectual Ventures case over patents ends in U... by a3n on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @11:16PM (#7188691)

> There's got to be a way to bring this system back to serve the purpose for which it was designed - encouraging innovation

Did it ever do that? I honestly don't know. Maybe it was a well intentioned bad idea from the beginning.

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