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more fixes for patents

Posted on 26 November 2012 By antipaucity No Comments on more fixes for patents

An addition to my previous post on patents is due.

If you are a non-producing entity, ie you have a patent “just to have it” (you’re a company, not a person, and you only have patents to use as legal ammunition), you relinquish rights to sue over infringement.

If you are not producing anything the patent covers, just like with a trademark, you lose it. Holding a patent to use as legal weaponry is at the least unethical, and likely worse – add-in the fact that the legal system currently makes it [relatively] simple for trolls to operate … and you have a totally messed-up system.

Wired has a great article on patent trolls in issue 20.12 (see also this article on patent drawings).

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