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Originally posted by charly
I think what a lot of do not realize is the financial benefits to the companies paying the license and them with the patents to reduce this market down to 100 players.
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One could almost chalk the idea that the big players who are settling with Acacia are doing so to knock out competitors as a conspiriacy theory, but given some astute observations, it does not sound so far off.
Combine this with the fact that some industry players have patents and have patents-pending that you can now see that patents can be used to reduce competition... afterall, that's kinda what the patent means......
The original intent of the patent system was to allow inventors to share their discoveries and inventions for all to read and learn to further technological progress [do you hear the patriotic music going in the background?] but then [music scratches to complete stop] businesses discovered that a patent can be used to shut out competitors and either make them pay to continue or shutdown.
Henry Ford faced patent issues back in the day, so this current trend of patent infringement cases, is just history repeating itself over and over.
These patent abuse cases will repeat themselves over and over, hence the need and the time to make a stand.
Both FTPF and IMPA have it in their focus to fight against patent abuse cases.
FTPF has the altruistic method of getting experts to come forward to participate, rather than trying to seek them out individually (yes, this will be done as well, but having broader exposure certainly helps alot to uncover the prior art).
FTPF touches upon a grassroots effort to get people, who may have the silver bullets to invalidate a patent claim, involved in the fight.
Believe me, it's not easy to get someone to come forward to help... i have spent hours and hours in emails, phone, and fax to get to people to get their attention, even calling them at their home numbers to get their attention.
There is a great synergy between IMPA and FTPF efforts, but our charters are very different, but we have some strong common traits that makes us great contributors to the side of fighting against bad patents.
Fight the Patent!