2011/8/12 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>: > 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?
Of course, then the challenge becomes, how can that inventor take advantage of their patent? A "patent troll" need only assert one of their patents that is tangentially needed for this new invention to take hold, a cross licensing deal is made whereby the patent troll can also pull in a healthy revenue from the new invention. If the "patent troll" has the heavier resources in this bargain, it is not hard to imagine that they come out ahead. I have a challenge back. Name a "software invention" that you feel is deserving of patent protection. Specifically, one that does not cover techniques that would have been required as soon as you entered a field. -- 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.
