The prevailing "wisdom". NPEs are the bad guys and practicing companies are the good guys.
NPEs (Trolls) are not the problem. This story again shows that the main issue facing the patent system is the lack of a level playing field between innovative SMEs or small guys and Big Co. Because Big Co abuse the system, whereas NPEs use the system.
I have seen this sort of issue time and again over the past 15 years or so.
Big Co attempt to patent small guys out of the market. Three cheers for NPEs giving something back in the other direction.
If these Nobel Prize winners had sold their IP rights to an NPE (Intelectual Ventures?) their institution would be better rewarded for the R&D effort here. There are increasing numbers of graphene patents out there but not in the hands of these guys.
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What if he had spoken to an NPE?
The prevailing "wisdom". NPEs are the bad guys and practicing companies are the good guys.
NPEs (Trolls) are not the problem. This story again shows that the main issue facing the patent system is the lack of a level playing field between innovative SMEs or small guys and Big Co. Because Big Co abuse the system, whereas NPEs use the system.
I have seen this sort of issue time and again over the past 15 years or so.
Big Co attempt to patent small guys out of the market. Three cheers for NPEs giving something back in the other direction.
If these Nobel Prize winners had sold their IP rights to an NPE (Intelectual Ventures?) their institution would be better rewarded for the R&D effort here. There are increasing numbers of graphene patents out there but not in the hands of these guys.