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Originally posted by Peaches@Jul 4 2003, 05:49 PM
Playing Devil's Advocate: If YOU had a patent for something, wouldn't YOU fight to make others that were using the product/technology/idea be responsible to pay you for it?
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Absolutely!
It's not legitimate patents that piss me off. It's the guys with the bullshit patents that I hate. In many cases, the only original thought they had was to be the first to think to patent something everyone has been using for years. In that case, it is not their intellectual property and they do not deserve to be compensated for it.
However, the only way to settle it is go to court. And these typically aren't fast cases. One of the ones I had first hand involvement with way back took about 6 years to settle.