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The limits of a patent pool

The limits of a patent pool

Posted Dec 8, 2005 7:09 UTC (Thu) by ekj (guest, #1524)
In reply to: The limits of a patent pool by JoeBuck
Parent article: A look at the Patent Commons Project and OIN

This is true. Unfortunately patent-pools also don't defend against patent-sharks. Since they normally neither produce nor sell any product whatsoever by themselves, they definitely won't infringe on any of your pooled patents.


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