Thinking about the possible future issues with regard to larger companies entering the “patent pooling” / patent enforcing business model, I believe a future issue might be the concept of “tying,” (a concept I learned about during my time in China) where a company is approached to take a license for patents relating to one … Read more
I was thinking about Zusha Elinson’s “New Business Targeting Patent Trolls Signs IBM and Cisco” article in which he discusses how RPX Corp appears to have the business model of aggregating patent assets (likely relevant to their members) “off the street” so that patent trolls cannot get to the assets first and enforce them against … Read more
A paste of a comment from another TechDirt article on “New Patent Buying Firm Swears It’ll Never Litigate Over Its Patents” Comment – Nov 25th, 2008 @ 1:27pm I agree. The goal of the whole patent process is to INNOVATE and to protect the INVENTOR against others reverse engineering and copying his/her ideas. Perhaps the … Read more