Friday, August 19, 2011

The Terrible Cost Of Patents

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/19/terrible-cost-patents/

Patents were originally conceived to protect inventors—people and companies who contribute to the advancement of society by creating new products. But in the past decade, something went horribly wrong. Patents are increasingly became nothing more than financial and legal weapons, to be amassed in portfolios by “non-practicing entities” (i.e. patent trolls) and used to extort protection money from economically productive companies.

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