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Authored by Cm on Sept 2, 2013 7:43:04 GMT
Came across this this morning regarding Quirky [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23772430] If General Electric has thousands of patents for which it cannot find a use, then they must be current valid (sic) patents for inventions which are effectively dead, but are patents not supposed to be for a "limited" period of monopoly? Here it looks like they have had a total life of "invention validity" plus some - GE have cornered the invention of some (actually looks like lots of) things. The biggest fear I have is that GE will sell the patents to some troll who would then stifle innovation somewhere by taxing those who had actually done invention. But then again, they could keep them as a defensive measure against any possible patent attacks - how sad!
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Authored by Cm on Sept 2, 2013 7:45:48 GMT
Oops, sorry didn't check the clicky link worked properly, but the link is given.
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