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Originally Posted by felixdd
Because you lay stake to "intellectual property" that you're not using, nor have any intent in doing so. Someone else whose intent is to make life easier are now denied their legimate needs, based on what we dictate to be "legally" right and wrong...
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Are you saying that in order to own a patent I must be doing something with it and am not allowed to sit on it? I can buy real estate and do nothing for years with it. I only have an intention to build on it - someday.
I might be wrong but it seems to me that a patent is a tangible item such as a deed that can be traded. Just because of the fact that the patent office made it worth something. I agree that I cannot sue for liability or loss of business like NTP is doing but since I am the owner of that technology I have the right to license it to someone else. It could be that I saw a good buy but didn't have the money to create the worlds next big thing.
It was mentioned here more than a few times that the patent laws are outdated but according to the law today I own that technology ( I guess :? ). It seems that the only way to protect against this type of slimeball antics is to change the patent laws. Like Paragon mentioned before that it's becoming the new business model of today which is very scary indeed.
Jeff-