On 09/13/10 13:21, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: > John Martin <john.m.mar...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> On 09/13/10 08:22 AM, joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: >> >>> But in any case, patents are anachronistic. Patents have been created to >>> protect inventions made by single personss against big companies 200 years >>> ago. >>> Patents are now perverted by the big companies against the original >>> intention. >> >> Single persons like Paul Allen? >> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/27/paul_allen_patent_offensive/ > > I can't see Paul Allen listed as inventor...... > > So this is obviously a miss usage of patents. > > Jörg >
Really? Are you sure. I can think of several criteria that might be used here. 1. Are you the original inventor? (What about companies that pay for the R&D?) 2. Are you the company that paid for the R&D? (What if you are, but you have no plans to make a product based on the patent?) 3. Did you purchase the rights to the patent (not inventor) and do not have a product that uses it? (what most people mean by patent troll) 4. What if you purchased the patent and do have a product? I believe that Paul Allen falls into category 2, not category 3. Not the classic patent troll. -- blu It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. - Bruce Schneier -----------------------------------------------------------------------| Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:603-262-3916, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
