Title fixed accordingly.
"Troy Kirkland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:... > > "Hadron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Mark Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>> >>>> The same should go for patents. >>> >>> The first thing to consider is whether patent should ever be >>> transferrable >>> from the original inventor. To my mind, if a company employs someone >>> who invents something, that invention should remain the property of >>> that person, and the company should license it from them, similarly, it >>> should not be possible to sell on patents to patent trolling companies >>> like Acacia, or anyone else, for that matter. >>> >>> It's about time that ownership of such things was returned to the real >>> inventors... >> >> If ever there was a time that Mark Kent revealed himself to be a troll >> it is now. >> >> Listen to what he is saying : a company who employs someone is not >> entitled to the things that that employee is paid to work on. He is >> is a troll or absolutely making it with a tele-tubbie. > > Absolutely amazing. Just when I thought that nobody could be more clueless > than Schestowitz or "Mark S. Bilk" this Kent troll comes along with this > hillarious suggestion. > > Aside from the blatant stupidity... it simply makes zero sense at all. > Take for example some research being done at IBM. The researcher is being > paid a salary by IBM. The company (IBM) is also the one funding the > research and "assuming the risk" because it's completely likely that the > research might not pan out in the end. Depending on the research being > done, the cost of the facilities and equipment could easily run $10's of > millions of dollars which is yet another investment that IBM is making. > > According to the Kent idiot... if something is discovered or invented from > all of this then IBM who paid the salary and put up all of the investment > and took all of the risk, they would be nothing! The researcher would get > to keep everything and simply walk out the door. > > This is just absurd! No wonder that Mark Kent is an unemployed janitor. > What a sort of idiot would even suggest something so stupid. > > >> FWIW, I do agree with stopping the selling of patents to a degree. Use >> it or lose it in other words. > > Couldn't this be gotten around by granting an exclusive "license" to the > patent which would effectively be the same thing. And companies do license > patents all the time which is completely valid as far as I'm concerned. > > > > -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
