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- From: Alex Macfie <alex@cgce.net>
- To: patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] cases of killing competition with patents?
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 09:39:40 +0100
At 03:15 28/05/03 -0400, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
Tuesday, the opposite happened. A US jury awards an individual who sued
eBay over two software patents, a total of $35,000,000 in damages.
An example of a litigation-only company suing anyone who uses their
so-called "invention" so collecting lots of money for no real work. This is
legalized extortion. It doesn't matter whether it's big companies or small
companies doing it. It's still wrong.
Alex
Alex Macfie www.cgce.net alex@cgce.net
Trewarren, Llanddewi Rhydderch, Abergavenny, Gwent NP7 9UT
"The exclusive right to invention [is] given not of natural right,
but for the benefit of society." -- Thomas Jefferson
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