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LinuxCon: The mobile Linux patent landscape

LinuxCon: The mobile Linux patent landscape

Posted Sep 1, 2011 0:43 UTC (Thu) by lutchann (subscriber, #8872)
In reply to: LinuxCon: The mobile Linux patent landscape by Richard_J_Neill
Parent article: LinuxCon: The mobile Linux patent landscape

Unfortunately your plan would do nothing to protect anyone from patent trolls (non-practicing entities). In fact it would encourage patent holders to sell their patents to patent trolls and then license them back, just in case the patent holder was forced into your cabal.


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