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Give the ill-gotten patent profits back
Give the ill-gotten patent profits back
Posted Jun 2, 2006 13:18 UTC (Fri) by jstAusr (guest, #27224)In reply to: The end of the JPEG patent - sort of by bangert
Parent article: The end of the JPEG patent - sort of
Big players like nothing more than crushing their opponents, the ability to cause more damage would be an incentive. The lawyers would love to retry the old cases because it would be a new revenue stream. Maybe more importantly, it would cause the patent holders to be more careful about insuring that their patents were actually valid. Of coarse, no software patents would be a better solution but, putting pressure on ill-gotten profits would be helpful.
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Give the ill-gotten patent profits back
Posted Jun 2, 2006 20:34 UTC (Fri) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]
Indeed, that's the whole point, since ill-gotten profits are the whole reason this unhappy and sordid business came to be in the first place. If somehow we can make the chances of making money out of such a scheme low enough, it will stop happening. The trick is to figure out how to do this. :-(