Patents in themselves give the inventor no real commercial protection
unless they have the funds and time to defend it in court. Investors
like to see patents, so maybe they do have a use.
AG
On 11/29/2011 3:46 AM, Alain dit le Cycliste wrote:
experience of small companies owning patents, or small inventors
owning patents,
is that big corps usually find a way to get around, especially when
collaborating with the inventor before.
(It is why the inventor of smartcard get out of France, feeling abused
by his big partner)
I'm sure that Rossi won't be able to block similar devices if it works.
patents are also used to block small companies, by fear of legal
battle (that they will win, but after being bankrupted).
I'm sure that if a big corp own a patent, no small will dare to
innovate (alone) in the domain.
il also helps big companies to block good (or bad) patent infrigement
accusation, but making bad counter accusations...
(see Apple/MS/intel/samsung battles)
the expensive patent office are mostly useful for big corp, to
maintain dominance of the big corp. strategic for the nation!
small inventors seldom succeed alone, but there are some lucky guys.few.
2011/11/28 Mary Yugo <maryyu...@gmail.com <mailto:maryyu...@gmail.com>>
So, if I understand you correctly, patent protection doesn't
work. So why do we bother with an expensive patent office and all
those millions (billions?) of patents?
