Patent fun

By Patrick on August 27, 2002 4:41 PM |

A patent/copyright flame up on irc today. I had to dig up a Forbes article titled Patently Absurd. It's a good read. Fear IBM and their army of patent lawyers.

"OK," he said, "maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?"

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