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- From: Roland Orre <orre@nada.kth.se>
- To: Alex Macfie <alex@cgce.net>
- Cc: patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] cases of killing competition with patents?
- Date: 28 May 2003 11:41:29 +0200
- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 10:39, Alex Macfie wrote:
> 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.
I consider it not only wrong, it should be illegal!
(it may be already, in many countries, I haven't been able to check this).
Roland
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