bgraham
join:2001-03-15
Smithtown, NY
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Verizon VoiceWing
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May 5th, @03:27PM
| The customer pays for these lawsuits
I guess it is a good idea. There appears to be some sense in not taking from the consumer and giving to lawyers.
I thought years ago IBM published a list of their patents every month or so just so everyone in the computer industry knew what was going on.
I think patent laws are pretty rediculous. Many years ago a company I worked for got sued for patent infringement and the company holding the patent copied something that had been around for at least 6 years prior to their patent being issued. It cost us a tidy amount of money to prove this and had the patent office looked into the literature that we supplied, the patent office could have denied the patent easily. |
