In article <1457443.GOrtmPSu19@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Open Invention Network Announces Launch of Distinguished Inventors Patent
> Acquisition Program With Purchase of V_Graph Patents
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Open Invention Network (OIN), a collaborative enterprise that
> | enables innovation in open source and an increasingly vibrant
> | ecosystem around Linux, today announced the launch of its
> | Distinguished Inventors Patent Acquisition program. The program is
> | focused on entrepreneurial inventors, typically unaffiliated with
> | large corporate entities, who have authored key technology patents.
> | The Distinguished Inventors Patent Acquisition program offers
> | upfront cash consideration for accepted patents and support for
> | further advances in the technology and onward patenting by the
> | original inventor. The program will be an attractive alternative
> | for independent inventors seeking to monetize their patents but not
> | wishing to sell to patent trolls or "corporate trolls" who seek to
> | use patents to impede innovation and competition.
> `----
>
> http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/open-invention-network-announces-launc
> h,912851.shtml
>
> Why not use the money to combat this unjust system that's a welfare programme
> for lawyers? Because IBM (among others) is behind OIN and it loves patents?
Inventor invents something new and useful.
Inventor sells patent to OIN, making the new and useful technology
available to free software *and* getting some money for the inventor.
Net result is that someone put in a lot of work which was made available
to the community, and he got money for it. I can see why you would be
upset about that--you'd rather have him sell his patent to a company
that would use it against others, so you'd get more page hits whining
about it.
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--Tim Smith
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