Patent Firm Woos Inventors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday April 21, 2006 @07:07AM from the stable-of-thoughts dept.

An anonymous reader writes "C|Net has an article up discussing a new way to win the patent race; hook up with the inventors." From the article: "'They are more concept type of patents. It is a very blue sky kind of thing,' Langer said of the patents that Intellectual Ventures is trying to develop. By contrast, the type of patents that Langer continues to file on his own are typically based on several years of lab research and targeted at very specific ideas, he said. Other researchers working with the firm include Eric Leuthardt, a neurosurgeon with St. Louis' Washington University, and Muriel Ishikawa, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. "

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Patent troll wants brains, by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-21 07:22 · Score: 1, Interesting

Why doesn't he just search the Internet for ideas to patent, or look what's being patented in other countries and copy that? That's what most of these trolls do.

Otherwise it makes more sense for a Venture Capital firm that actually wants to make something to consider Trade Secrets as a better (worldwide) way to protect their invention. Especially where disclosing the products doesn't disclose the secrets (software/server side/ internal business processes/ etc.).