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The "Defensive Patent License" an Open Defensive Patent Pool
capedgirardeau writes "Via Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing:: 'Ars Technica's Jon Brodkin has an in-depth look at the "Defensive Patent License," a kind of judo for the patent system created by ... EFF's Jason Schultz (who started EFF's Patent Busting Project) and ... Jen Urban (who co-created the ChillingEffects clearinghouse). As you'd expect from two such killer legal freedom fighters, the DPL is audacious, exciting, and wicked cool. It's a license pool that companies opt into, and members of the pool pledge not to sue one another for infringement. If you're ever being sued for patent infringement, you can get an automatic license to a conflicting patent just by throwing your patents into the pool. The more patent trolls threaten people, the more incentive there is to join the league of Internet patent freedom fighters."
This would provide, potentially, fine defense against being sued by an actual company with actual products, because with a large patent pool you'd be likely to find one that your attacker is potentially infringing.
But patent trolls do not infringe, because they do not have products.
PLEASE Patent a method for doing this! I would pay CASH MONEY to be able to PHYSICALLY shit on Apple and Microsoft over the internet! There are MILLIONS to be made here, man! MILLIONS!
Woah, hold up there. I'm not coming up with the method, I'm talking about patenting the idea. Let someone else figure out a method and then sue them.
That is how these things work right?
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