> The best thing that IBM can do is "donate" the patents they hold to<br>>the Community to that those patents "off the table" unless somebody<br>>decides to get skunky.<br><br><div>Yeah, I agree. Donate the patents to a non-profit organization (third party alliance) and then take the whole "patent game" out of this.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That way the community can continue to develop without being in fear of "deep pocket" companies coming along and cracking researchers, developers, or anyone else that wants to develop, that doesn't have the "deep pockets" (or time and money) to be hanging out in a lawyer's office and spending more time doing patent paperwork instead of engineering.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Patent paperwork is worse than documentation, and it's hard to even get a developer to write documentation. The only people that file patents are "patent troll" lawyers, and large corporations with deep pockets that use these silly patents to battle others, and kill off anyone else that tries to compete.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Patents are a bad thing. It all boils down to human greed. We've seen enough of that on Wall Street, looks like Wall Street is now getting into screwing with engineering/development in America. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Why even write code, or work on a project if someone else can just come along and file a patent for what you're working on? So much for Open Source communities and open standards.</div><div> </div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Robert Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robertltux@gmail.com">robertltux@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Mark Malewski <<a href="mailto:mark.malewski@gmail.com">mark.malewski@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
...<br>
<div class="im">> I'm extremely disappointed that IBM would stoop to such a low level. Large<br>
> corporations seem to do a good job using teams of lawyers to just create<br>
> these silly "blanket" patents, and "shot gun" approach to patents.<br>
> IBM's patent application is NOT for an ORIGINAL or NEW idea or "invention".<br>
> It's just a weapon to try and stifle innovation and competition in science<br>
> & technology. It would be similar to Netscape attempting to "patent" a web<br>
> browser, or "patent" the internet. It might sound absurd, but that is what<br>
> these corporations (like IBM) try to do with these silly blanket patent<br>
> applications.<br>
</div>..<br>
actually the sad thing is inside the fortune 50 crowd having a<br>
"DeathStar grade" patent portfolio is part of the rules of the game<br>
<br>
If Company A approaches Company B with 5 patents being infringed the<br>
standard approach is for Company B to go digging and find 5 patents<br>
that Company A is infringing on so they can do a cross license.<br>
<br>
The best thing that IBM can do is "donate" the patents they hold to<br>
the Community to that those patents "off the table" unless somebody<br>
decides to get skunky.<br>
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