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Originally Posted by birick
I think I must be missing something, or maybe I don't understand because I don't own a blackberry. What confuses me is that the majority of the folks here see the patent holder as the bad guy.
I always thought that if you had a fantastic idea for a better way to do something then you should get your idea patented. Then you can either put your idea into a product or you can license/sell your idea to someone else to produce (or you can strike a deal with a patent holding firm since they are the experts on such things). Isn't that how it works? Isn't that what happened here? Isn't that why, as a condition of employment, I had to sign an agreement with my company stating that my ideas (while employed by them) were company property?
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Well, of course you are right. However, in today's technological society, you would be considered a patent squatter, the bane of society, unworthy of breathing air. You are not eligible to receive compensation for the fruits of your creative labors. Instead, if you come up with the best idea in the world, but are unable to put together the capital to actually build your creation, you must forfiet your brainchild to whomever does have said capital and you don't get a penny out of it.
Make sense now?