By: Canada Mark
This article is a bit of a red herring. Yes there are NPE that have crappy (vague) patents that they try to make fit a successful product. However, inventors are not always large companies able to...
View ArticleBy: greggthurman
I agree with Mark on a variety of levels. Patents are assets which can be bought and sold, just as chairs, desks, CNC machines, computers, filing cabinets, etc. If someone is smart enough to buy an...
View ArticleBy: MEES
There should be standards set for which NPE can collect or be allowed to expire unless they put their patent to use.
View ArticleBy: Perry Mason
There is proposed legislation in the works that will require the loser in any “patent troll” litigation, to pay 100% of the winners legal fees. But alas the airheads in DC will never let it pass.
View ArticleBy: Doc11355
The airheads to which you refer are, of course, lawyers themselves and view the “loser pays” system (popular in England) very negatively. Of course, they’ll deep six it, just like they do tort reform...
View ArticleBy: fricfrac
Well that would be all well and good if you assume the “winners” are ‘always’ the most deserving of victory. Whereas the reality is that your chances of success in litigation rest on the so called...
View ArticleBy: Gord
I went through a lot of the archives from Patently Apple’s patently-legal archives and there are a lot of crazy troll law suits that hang on one claim that’s out to lunch. For most trolls it’s a...
View ArticleBy: Tessellator
I agree, there are many inventors who developed, prototyped & patented products but were unable to gain the traction necessary to actually produce & sell it. An inventor seeking just...
View ArticleBy: Whocares.me
Patents should be registered and then sold – new technology = higher price to use it Old = cheaper Should then be less each year that it’s been around on a percentage basis working down to a minimum...
View ArticleBy: quiviran
Yes. The key point is “just compensation for his invention”. I doubt that applies to many of the current players in the smartphone litigation arena.
View ArticleBy: Tessellator
very true, and why I included the qualifier “just” to compensation. However there are grey areas in patent trolling. There are cases when a company bought another company to get it’s patent assets but...
View ArticleBy: quiviran
Or companies can acquire patent rights and sit on them to quash competitive products. A prime example is the Chevron acquisition of GMs battery technology and subsequent refusal to grant a license at...
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By: Tessellator
you have to be careful there.. sometimes huge investments and long tome to market success. Like in the case of the ipad and iphone where some patents go back a decade. Apple had spent 10 years and...
View ArticleBy: Tessellator
Oooh coal powered cars, what a good idea? Conspiracy theories my friend not facts, besides we need to do a whole lot better than battery powered cars, charging off the grid will just not work (they...
View ArticleBy: quiviran
This is about patent-related misbehavior. Chevron did acquire the patents and did refuse to sell the rights to use the technology to manufacturers, including Toyota, who became unable to provide...
View ArticleBy: Tessellator
and all of that is complete nonsense http://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/p/pow-gen-ger.htm
View ArticleBy: quiviran
Your data is from 2010. This happened in May. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/26/us-climate-germany-solar-idUSBRE84P0FI20120526 Nuclear is fighting for its existence after Fukushima. Better for...
View ArticleBy: Tessellator
That was a fluff piece designed to mislead the easily lead not real gross electric production figures. You need to wake up and join the real world. (and quit with the silly conspiracy theories...
View ArticleBy: Tessellator
And here is a report from the IEA, showing (among others) germany using mostly fossil fuel, and secondarily, Nukes http://iea.org/stats/surveys/mes.pdf It’s funny you’ll believe wild conspiracies about...
View ArticleBy: quiviran
In one month, for a few days, Germany did. They had never done that before. The term for that is progress. Burn more coal is not progress, it is death. Death for mountains, death for people, death for...
View ArticleBy: Tessellator
Holy crap did you even look at the reports? Germany generates 5% of it’s power from solar not 50%”. Those are actual verifiable, up to date figures (as of a few weeks ago). You are running through life...
View ArticleBy: quiviran
Too late for what? To buy more coal, oil or nuclear? I don’t dispute the production figures to date. I just see a better future, if we try. If we don’t the future will go to those who did. The only...
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