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Patently Absurd

2002-06-18 21:39:14+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Lots of people have linked to this Forbes article by Gary Reback, Patently Absurd. If you have any illusions left that patents are about protecting intellectual property, go read it.

"OK," he said, "maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?"

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