US 'intellectual' 'property' law forces IP owners to pursue their 'rights' aggressively, or risk losing them to the public domain. no manager wants to be the one who did that - it's not a career advancement opportunity.
companies also have to seek patents and so forth asap, lets a competitor get in first and they wind up having to pay royalties for their own work.
as this case demonstrates, prior art has lost a lot of it's value in defending IP suits - the average person in the US simply does not have the education to be able to understand, let alone assess, such claims.
from here in australia, this stuff looks even more insane than it does to many americans.
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Date: 2012-08-26 02:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-08-27 07:51 am (UTC)companies also have to seek patents and so forth asap, lets a competitor get in first and they wind up having to pay royalties for their own work.
as this case demonstrates, prior art has lost a lot of it's value in defending IP suits - the average person in the US simply does not have the education to be able to understand, let alone assess, such claims.
from here in australia, this stuff looks even more insane than it does to many americans.
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Date: 2012-08-27 11:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-08-27 01:09 pm (UTC)Software patents, however, Should Not Exist.