Then it’ll just turn into an argument about “enough.” Regardless the company with the deepest pocket wins. If people want to play the rigged game then fine. If the time comes I will play a different game. Honey badger don’t care.
Prior art is prior art as its intellectual it can be argued that most people didnt need to know as it was irrelevant to them.
But its the American patent system that’s broke. As if prior use is found in other counties the patent is nulled.
Hence the Apple vs Samsung trials where Apple lost trying to apply a US patent in other countries.
yea … patents … i dont think they are very useful in protecting individual innovators unless you have cash to burn and lotsa friends playing legal games, or so i am opined. even if you have a patent, to grab someone with large financial mass, you too will need to burn alot of cash to move things in your favor … am i right?
+Arashi correct, an individual is usually an ant to squash. A large corporation will usually ignore individual investors they might be infringing on and will wait until you actually sue them. Then they will delay and delay, in the hope you’ll burn through your ready cash and give up. If you can find a lawyer to take it on contingency, you’re both very lucky and have what the lawyer considers an ironclad case. And you’re likely to give up 50% of the award (though that’s a guess on my part).
The patent system is the game in town though, and there’s really only two ways to play, with a strong open source foundation that either provides a widely published repository of prior art or files patents defensively for the benefit of the community - an expensive process with a new set of problems. One ignores patents at their peril if starting up a company - as FormLabs found out.
At their peril? FormLabs seems to be doing just fine last I heard. Why in the world would any company think it is a good idea to piss off a bunch of MIT kids. Talk about short term thinking.
+Billy FormLabs assumed they would be okay since the 3D Systems patent would be expiring this year. They got sued and had to settle out of court and get a license from 3D Systems. That cost them.
They settled?
I thought they did - they were in settlement talks but I can’t find any recent news or definitive proof. Anybody?
Still caused a lot of disruption and legal expenses - hence, “at your peril”