OIN expands its coverage

Posted Mar 14, 2012 12:55 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
In reply to: OIN expands its coverage by droundy
Parent article: OIN expands its coverage

I would define it as: using any kind of patent in any kind of litigation. Pretty unambiguous. It would only work if the treat applied to the members of the pact themselves too, though, as a measure to prevent bulling.

But maybe a better approach would be to find a loophole in the patent system, in the spirit of Copyleft. Note how actually the patent law letter is abused to the exact opposite of it's initial intent (foster innovation). We need a symmetrical hack to reverse the situation.

I wouldn't be surprised to discover that RMS is thinking about it right now.

OIN expands its coverage

Posted Mar 14, 2012 17:44 UTC (Wed) by armijn (subscriber, #3653) [Link] (1 responses)

two words: "defensive publications"

OIN expands its coverage

Posted Mar 15, 2012 11:28 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

Yes, that would be akin to a MIT license or a public domain Copyright disclaimer: it allows you to use the information without limits.

A Copyleft style hack would use the patent system to enforce the desired behavior. The problem being that patents are not like Copyrights, that are automatically granted...

OIN expands its coverage

Posted Mar 17, 2012 17:37 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (guest, #1954) [Link]

I would define it as: using any kind of patent in any kind of litigation.

So it would be for companies that are willing to give up exclusive use of every possible invention in exchange for the same from other members. I can definitely see how most of the current OIN members would not be interested in that. OIN restricts itself to certain kinds of inventions, but the members still get much use out of patents on other inventions.

I note that major patent holders frequently lobby for patent law changes, but they never argue for eliminating patents altogether.