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I don't think this would work. If the fee was too high, then smaller companies and individuals would be locked out of patents. If the fee is too low, then it doesn't matter and large companies will continue business as usual.
Make the bounty $10000 * sqrt(# patents owned by applicant)
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I don't think this would work. If the fee was too high, then smaller companies and individuals would be locked out of patents. If the fee is too low, then it doesn't matter and large companies will continue business as usual.
Make the bounty $10000 * sqrt(# patents owned by applicant)
> He then spent $6,000 of his own money to launch a formal challenge to 936. Either he has a lot of spare time and money or this isn't the full story.
> Either he has a lot of spare time and money. He probably has! https://www.wired.com/story/eric-swildens-uber-waymo-lawsuit... And previous discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15875685
> After a three-year battle in which he spent up to $1000 an hour on lawyers, Swildens ended up selling Speedera at a discount to Akamai for $130 million.
He can probably do this a few more times.
This is so typical in technology now, large corporations patenting everything they can possibly think of, including things that they've blatantly copied. It absolutely doesn't surprise me that a technology as fundamentally simple and foundational as LIDAR is covered by a load of bullshit patents. As the article notes what this is really about is using your patents to litigate competitors either to slow their progress…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think this would work. If the fee was too high, then smaller companies and individuals would be locked out of patents. If the fee is too low, then it doesn't matter and large companies will continue business as usual.
Make the bounty $10000 * sqrt(# patents owned by applicant)
I remember reading here how Google was patenting neural network layers such as dropout etc.
This is really pissing me off as they can essentially patent anything and everything and squash all completion. It’s now an arms race of patents among the tech giants. I remember reading here how Google was patenting neural network layers such as dropout etc.
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> Either he has a lot of spare time and money. He probably has! https://www.wired.com/story/eric-swildens-uber-waymo-lawsuit... And previous discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15875685
tl;dr for those who don't want to read devys link (though you should. Good article): > After a three-year battle in which he spent up to $1000 an hour on lawyers, Swildens ended up selling Speedera at a discount to Akamai for $130 million. He can probably do this a few more times.
Did they seriously try to patent an oscillator? Galium nitride FET or a vacuum tube, this design is at least 100 years old. WTF.
> describes how a laser diode can be configured to emit pulses of laser light using a circuit that includes an inductor and a gallium nitride transistor. Did they seriously try to patent an oscillator? Galium nitride FET or a vacuum tube, this design is at least 100 years old. WTF.