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Apple, Amazon, Microsoft & More Settle Lawsuits With Boston University
curtwoodward writes "Boston University hadn't been very aggressive with intellectual property lawsuits in the past. But that changed in 2012, when the school began suing the biggest names in consumer tech, alleging infringement of a patent on blue LEDs — a patent that, no coincidence, is set to expire at the end of 2014. As of today, about 25 big tech names have now settled the lawsuits, using 'defensive' patent firm RPX. A dozen or so more defendants are probably headed that way. And BU is no longer a quiet patent holder."
In this case, I have no problem with the patent being issued.
Wrong. You do not have a problem with who gets sued. You have a problem with the patent being used.
More specifically: You have a problem with the fact that patents allow the idea monopolist to prevent use of the patented technology, not just sale or manufacture of the patented process or idea itself -- How else would patents possibly work, smart guy?
More generally: You have a patent problem.
Most tellingly, you also have a logic problem. It's common for the irrational to make ridiculous statements such as yours. You have zero evidence that patents or copyrights are beneficial whatsoever, even ignoring the fashion and automotive industries which sell primarily on design and are innovative in design and yet are allowed no design patents or copyrights -- However, you still entertain the idea that it's not completely moronic to run the world's economy of ideas and scientific progress based on untested and unproven hypotheses that copyright and patents are beneficial.
If you do not have a problem with all patents, then you are not rational. You are not a scientist. You shouldn't even call yourself an engineer, or human for that matter. You owe everything you have to your only advantage over the other apes: A better system for the free sharing of ideas and information... And you "have no problem with the patent"... that's just ridiculous. You have no problem with placing a restriction on human nature? You have no problem with creating a police state for innovation?
You have no rational basis for your retarding beliefs. You need to re-evaluate your existence, human.