2009年 祈パテントトロール撲滅

パテントトロールにも存在価値があると言う人間が企業知財の中にもいますが、そういう方は次の記事をぜひ読んで欲しいと思います。私が持つのと同じ思いがうまくまとめられています。

Patent Trolls Erode the Foundation of the U.S. Patent System
(from Science Progress)
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In short, patent trolls may be a compelling (yet still unproven) business model, but they do nothing to contribute to innovation or the nation’s economic prosperity. In fact, they severely complicate the ability of businesses large and small to produce products and services that produce jobs and rebuild our nation’s (and workers’) economic health. Indeed, the unpredictability that any product can be made, used, or sold without the very real risk of a devastating onslaught of patent attacks results in a marketplace in which innovation and competition are stymied. This is no way for our patent system to work as the United States tries to innovate its way out of today’s deep economic recession...(more)