300 pages? Whoo, this topic is interesting and important for my future but there are limits :P
I'm honestly intrigued as to how they will tackle this problem. As I see it, unless the software patent cold war ends, patent trolls will always exist. The cold war is the standoff between major corporations that have a gigantic patent portfolio, who won't sue each other because once the floodgates are open everybody loses. MAD in a different form. We've in fact seen a glimpse of what happens when the cold war heats up a few months ago when everyone started suing everyone in the mobile space. Only a patent troll - a "PAE" as the article calls them, can operate as a rogue entity in such a system, as they have no products and thus are unlikely to be counter-infringing. If some reform does indeed occur, perhaps they'll also solve the IMO much, much larger problem of this cold war standoff, which is that new companies have to catch up and build a gigantic portfolio of their own. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
