Startups can now buy insurance against threat of patent trolls

Re:Startups can now buy insurance against threat of patent t... by eurleif on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @07:10PM (#8593151)

Patent trolls could just put out sham products that are cheap to produce but use their patent. And there are also legitimate cases for inventing something and licensing the patent out without producing anything yourself.

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Re:Startups can now buy insurance against threat of patent t... by chetanahuja on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @11:27PM (#8594014)

Of course in that case, the licensee is

Either a) Using the patent to to produce and sell the invention, in which case it's not a paper patent.

Or b) Using the patent purely to sue other people (which is what most of the big name patent trolls do) and therefore must be stopped.

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Re:Startups can now buy insurance against threat of patent t... by eurleif on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @11:50PM (#8594070)

>Using the patent to to produce and sell the invention, in which case it's not a paper patent.

If they're successful, patent trolls end up with licensees too.

If you're not allowed to sue anyone until you already have licensees, then if you invent and patent something and pitch it to a company, you can't sue them if they rip off the idea.

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