Credible threat

Credible threat

Posted Jun 24, 2008 23:28 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
In reply to: Invalidating a patent by stijn
Parent article: A belated look at the Red Hat/Firestar patent settlement

You have to be able to make a credible threat that you can get the patent thrown out, so you might have to fight some when the troll doesn't blink. RHT already had a defense (prior art, anticipation, obviousness, all the usual stuff where a software patent is concerned) prepared in this case.

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