This is worth watching again:
http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_curtis_how_i_beat_a_patent_troll.html
Thanks
Robert C
On 7/9/13 12:34 PM, Barry MacKichan wrote:
The killer with software patents is that to contest a patent
infringement suit is at least a $1 million. That means that trolls can
sue anyone as long as their case looks remotely plausible to an
non-techie judge, and as long as the "back-royalties" are less than a
million, the sued party has to roll over and pay. Notice that guilt or
innocence or diligent patent searches play no role in this calculus.
--Barry
On Jul 9, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I think I'm generally against software patents. But copyright is far
more abused .. it can be extended virtually forever. Some protection
is fine, but too much is oppressive.
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