But people should have the right to sell their IP if they want to. And that
should include companies as well. So I think the no-transfer option is DOA.

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote:

> That might also prove a disincentive to having big companies acquiring
> lots of little ones just to get hold of the patents. This might be a
> good thing i.e. all patents are invalidated if a company ceases to
> exist. This would not preclude a company existing as a subsidiary of
> another but at least the company would maintain identity in its own
> right.
>
> On Aug 10, 2:23 pm, phil swenson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In the no-transfer scenario, what happens in an acquisition?  The
> > patent is just invalidated?
> >
> > 2011/8/9 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot <
> [email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> >
> > >> Non-transferable is even worse. That does absolutely nothing to the
> patent
> > >> trolls but hurts the very rare Joe Inventor quite a bit. You can buy a
> > >> company and leave that company intact, injecting whatever lawyer power
> you
> > >> need for that company to start the court cases.
> >
> > > Do explain. Let's say there is a 3 year deadline and no transfer right.
> A
> > > company or an inventor comes up with an idea and patents it.
> > > How does a patent troll take advantage of that patent?
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