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- From: Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis@tinet.org>
- To: Peter Vandenabeele <peter.vandenabeele@mind.be>
- Cc: Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis@tinet.org>, riel@nl.linux.org, patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] pooling patents for progress and protection
- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:17:53 +0100
El Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:25:45PM +0100, Peter Vandenabeele deia:
> >
> > I doubt those sectors have the same economics as software. But I don't
> > know.
>
> The general concepts of cross-licensing of patents will be similar. I am
> curious
I believe the economics will be different. In your case (embedded systems,
IIRC)
maybe the economics are more similar because you end up selling physical
devices.
But in software there is no marginal cost to add licensing/patent
building/pool fees
to.
> how they do that, since all large companies in a certain field have some
> patents,
> so effectively they all have to enter some cross-licensing agreements, even
> if
> in the field they are harsh competitors.
>
I guess they just want to prevent new players from entering, not controlling
other
established players.
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Xavi Drudis Ferran
xdrudis@tinet.org
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