Re: [Patents] Cross licensing strategy of big firms

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>]

great quote ... I love it

why patenting is little threat to large companies, and hell for small
ones.  \ Of course they still have the risk from patent sharks, who do
not produce anything and prey on industries that do.

Bernard



* Benjamin Henrion <bh@udev.org>, le 11-01-07, a écrit:
> http://www.itpro.co.uk/applications/features/101743/the-open-source-patent-war/page2.html
> 
> "The mechanism for dealing with unintentional infringement of software
> patents is cross-licensing. Robert Barr, the patent counsel for Cisco,
> told the hearings of the US Federal Trade Commission on "Competition
> and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge Based
> Economy" in 2002 that: "It makes more business sense to assume that,
> despite the fact that we do not copy other company's products, and
> despite the fact that we do not derive solutions to problems from the
> patent literature, we will be accused of patent infringement. The only
> practical response to this problem of unintentional and sometimes
> unavoidable patent infringement is to file hundreds of patents each
> year ourselves, so that we can have something to bring to the table in
> cross-licensing negotiations. In other words, the only rational
> response to the large number of patents in our field is to contribute
> to it."
> 
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