BlackBerry wants to sell mobile phone patents to patent troll – IT Pro – News

I absolutely disagree –

anyone who understands patent law a little quickly realizes that patents are primarily a
give ‘quantitative value’ to ideas and research.

Q: I am a genius microbiologist who “by chance” discovers a virus or bacteria that could potentially attack and destroy any possible disease. then I take out a second mortgage on my house and as a concept (to make my idea salable) I learn my creation to fight covid. and it works (partially). Now I am sure that my invention will work and I want my many nights of work and the costs I have incurred to be recouped.

I myself do not have the means to go through all those test phases that medicines etc. have to go through, nor do I have the know-how to fine-tune my idea, start up production processes and manage a company. so to make sure my hard work stays mine there is such a thing as Intellectual Property. Because of this, the big boys can’t get away with my work with impunity.

But therein also lies the problem: because if I have the right to do with my idea what I want, then I can also destroy it, I can leave it on the shelf for years because another remedy yields more profit – and anything more than that. So wrong.

In certain situations there are rules that you may not abuse patents, that everyone has to pay the same amount, and that as long as you follow the rules you always have the ‘right’ to access the patent as long as you pay. in fact, even the price for such a patent is often restricted. (Frand)

The strange thing about all this is that these rules only apply to certain patents: for example, when a patent concerns essential matters that are needed in society. – If you know the patent system a bit and if you look at the developments over the past 30-40 years, you will see that technology (and other things) is increasingly needed, that more and more is possible and that there is more and more ‘use ‘. is made of rights to outsmart the competitor, rather than to see these rights as protection against abuse by others.

if literally all patents around the world were freely accessible at all times to anyone who can afford the license fee, there would probably be a huge increase in wealth worldwide in all but the highest classes of society. – that doesn’t mean it should always be free, or that patent lawsuits should never be filed again. but they should never be about IF a product may come on the market, but only about what compensation would reasonably be owed.

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