[Patents] Stopping the 'patent war' between companies -- solution -- non-aggression agreement (noaa)

[critto@poczta.wp.pl (Krzysztof Sobolewski)]

Hello y'all.
I've came to one idea, that may be good.

I know, that a lot of companies (especially, the 'small business' 
ones) file and obtain sw patents "for the defensive means only" -- to 
not be "outpatented" by their competition. It may be called "a 
prisoner's dilemma" -- not filing a patent would be the best choice 
for everyone, yet nobody does it. In effect, companies lose the 
loads of money on senseless "patent wars", "patent dules" and so 
on -- on trials, claims' searches, and so on.

Thus, I came up with some idea that might see 'typical Polish' :) in 
some way: Solidarity. You know, how has communism fallen in 
Poland ? People stopped to fear each other. They started to help 
each other. They started to *unite* in some way; "homo homini 
lupus est" lost its meaning in those great times in Poland.
The people "signed" (rather vocally, or even -- spiritually) a form of 
treaty: you will not denounce me to the secret police, I'll not 
denounce you. You will help me, I will help you. 'twas a great idea; 
commie ruling bastards couldn't do anything against it. Even the 
'martial law' hasn't changed that evolution -- towards the free 
society -- a lot.

But why I'm writin about it ... You know, the companies, which are 
anti-patent by default, could write & sign a kind of *treaty* -- Patent 
Non-Aggression Treaty (PNoAT). It would state something like that:

"We, undersigned below,hereby solemnly swear and declare, that 
we will never issue any patent claim or lawsuit against each other.

   Signed on behalf: (examples)
       Acme corp., John Smith, CEO
       X GmBH, Hans Hertlich, CEO
       Y corp., Mike Bull, CEO

It would be the 'eternal peace treaty'. I'm almost sure, that, once 
acknowledged with it, a lot of companies would "lay down their 
swords, down by the riverside" and "ain't study the patent war no 
more". After all, it's better to do normal business than to 
senslessly attack each other. The first ones to sign such 
multilateral agreements might be the small companies, but some 
"big" companies surely would join later. Agreements should be 
open and public -- eg. published on some websites. Anyway, as 
someone said "big companies are just the small companies that 
became bigger".

What do you think ? Anyway, I'm going to publish this idea, and 
get some companies interested with it. 

     Yours in Liberty,
          Critto

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