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Battling the Patent Trolls

Posted by Hemos on from the whack-slash-bush-wacked dept.

opus writes "There's an interesting series of articles at law.com on the current situation in patent law, which has become "a money-minting machine for a few patent holders". Includes an article on Peter Detkin, counsel at Intel, who spends much of his time battling patent infringement claims against Intel, and who coined the term "patent troll". Apparently it's not just the geeks who are unhappy with the current state of affairs in patent law."

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  1. Time to live... by Richard+Bannister · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your suggestion about Time To Live just gave me a silly idea...

    Imagine if the Patent system was operated like that of the DNS system. $70 to register a patent for two years; first come first served! Time to live on the Patent servers might be set at 24 hours, so your patent might temporarily expire if your local patent server crashed...

    GreatPatents.com - the Internet's Number 1 patent marketplace - could sell you the leading patents at discount prices!

    OK, I'll do some work now! :-)

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