I’m Going to Sue Your Ass: (because it’s cheaper than R&D)

[ via Tomlak ] Another article on the disturbing trend of strategic patent litigation: make broad claims and force your competitors into either retreating from the market, or pay license fees. Unfortunately, the article suggests the best defense is more patents instead of either narrowly defined patents, or overturning current law on patents and software.

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This entry was written by Bill Humphries and posted on May 25, 1999 at 12:00 am and filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the Atom feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.