Microsoft joins LOT Network, helping protect developers against patent assertions

Posted Oct 12, 2018 10:50 UTC (Fri) by zoobab (guest, #9945)
In reply to: Microsoft joins LOT Network, helping protect developers against patent assertions by excors
Parent article: Microsoft joins LOT Network, helping protect developers against patent assertions

Collective shields don't work against patent trolls.

Microsoft joins LOT Network, helping protect developers against patent assertions

Posted Oct 12, 2018 11:09 UTC (Fri) by excors (subscriber, #95769) [Link]

That might be relevant in the other discussion about Microsoft joining OIN, but (as I understand it) LOT isn't anything like a collective shield. LOT is basically a way of stopping members selling their patents to patent trolls and those patent trolls then suing other members. If there are lots of members, hopefully that will significantly reduce the ability of patent trolls to acquire useful patents.