Good News! Software Patents are in Jeopardy

biject wrote:

In the computer world there are many patents that don't make cents.

Why apply for a patent if one can't even make one cent from it?

Boon wrote:
biject wrote:
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>In the computer world there are many patents that don't make cents.
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Why apply for a patent if one can't even make one cent from it?

Wishful thinking
Pride
Defense (so no-one else can stop you)
Attack (in order to stop someone else)
Charity (you give it away)

and so on.

Peter Fairbrother wrote:
Boon wrote:
>biject wrote:
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In the computer world there are many patents that don't make cents.
>>
>Why apply for a patent if one can't even make one cent from it?
>
Wishful thinking
Pride
Defense (so no-one else can stop you)
Attack (in order to stop someone else)
Charity (you give it away)

Patents are nowadays not made to make money. They are used to defend
your company. It's not usual that company A approaches company B to
collect some money (patent submarining), now if B has patents, B will
check whether there's anything that can be applied to A's technology, so
B has to negotiate. It's a silly game, invented by patent lawyers, but
once this game has started, there's no longer a way
to get around it. You *have* to have patents for this situation, so you
get them.

So long,
Thomas

Peter Fairbrother wrote:
Boon wrote:
>biject wrote:
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In the computer world there are many patents that don't make cents.
>>
>Why apply for a patent if one can't even make one cent from it?

Wishful thinking (it might be worth something someday)
Pride (I have a patent!)
Fraud (our crypto snakeo algorithm is patented)
Defense (so no-one else can stop you doing it)
Defense (so no-one else can sue you doing it)
Attack (in order to stop someone else doing it)
Attack (in order to be able to sue someone else for doing it)
Charity (you give it away)
charity (this is obvious!, I won't let MS/Google/Chaum control it's use
with a later patent)

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and so on.

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