Flushing out submarine patents

Posted Dec 13, 2007 3:15 UTC (Thu) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)
In reply to: Flushing out submarine patents by nelljerram
Parent article: Specifying codecs for the web

This could easily backfire.  Big companies that wanted to avoid a small guy's patent would put
out a continuous stream of declarations to keep him so busy that he doesn't notice the one
that actually applies to his patent.