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0 pointsyieldcrv3y ago0 comments

Its about identifying symptoms, not being an apologist

okay so you’re living paycheck to paycheck and took the risk of filing your patent with the attorney for $10,000 and arguing with the patent office a couple times for another $10,000

now you need to monetize it and other people did the thing you described after you described it

everyone on the internet says “hm you should have launched a startup using more capital and more risk, doing that one specific thing, otherwise you are just a troll!”

yeah ok. convincing argument

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alistairSH3y ago

The argument is that society would be better off the the inventor licensed (or sold outright) to a company that will actually use the patent. Instead of to a NPE that exists only to sue.

If an inventor just wants to sit on a patent and not produce anything based on it, they should be forced to (eventually, though I have no idea what timeframe would be optimal) release their rights.

yieldcrvOP3y ago

That’s an ok argument but you know why that doesn’t happen right?

Companies get defensive at the mere suggestion of paying anything, NPE streamlines the process

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