On Aug 12, 6:00 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote:
> SmallCo finds out LargeCo is trying to blatently copy their product and > throw their marketing clout behind it to beat SmallCo at their own game. > Fortunately SmallCo has a patent. However, you can't just walk down to the > nearest judge office and sort it all out in 5 minutes. That kind of thing > takes time and more importantly legal savvy, something virtually no SmallCos > have in-house. They could now put out an ad in the paper to employ a lawyer, > but that's going to take way too long. You do what you normally do in such > cases: You go grab the yellow pages and call a lawyer, preferably an office > that is familiar with this kind of thing. You sign a deal with them: You > acquire their services in exchange for some fee, either per-hour or no-cure, > no-pay. Probably the latter, because they have very little money to start > out with; they spent on bunch of inventing the Invention and getting it > patented, and just as they started to recoup some of their investment, > LargeCo showed up and took their turf away from them. Or even more likely: LargeCo owns several troll patents that it turns around and threatens SmallCo with, thus multiplying the legal costs. Patents aren't there to protect the small guy anymore. The only small companies that "own" patents and assert their rights with them are the shell companies created by trolls in order to cover their asses (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when- patents-attack) -Craig -- 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.
