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Would GPL help?

Would GPL help?

Posted Aug 12, 2011 23:18 UTC (Fri) by Hausvib6 (guest, #70606)
In reply to: Would GPL help? by simlo
Parent article: The mobile patent mess may get worse

In this era of lawyers, don't have to win a lawsuit, just spend quite amount of money to stiffle or even kill the competitor.

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Would GPL help?

Posted Aug 14, 2011 7:35 UTC (Sun) by AndreE (guest, #60148) [Link]

Or, more commonly, threathen to spend a lot of money and scare off potential competitors with the size of your bank balance

Would GPL help?

Posted Aug 16, 2011 14:49 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Firstly, that's only true in the US.

Secondly, it looks like the times they may be a changin ...

We've already had a recent copyright lawsuit where costs were awarded against the plaintiff for not doing due diligence. All we need is a few more, and suddenly you'll *need* a big bank balance to start a patent lawsuit ...

Cheers,
Wol


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