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Old 03-06-2006, 12:53 AM
Ed Hansberry
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Originally Posted by daS
I'm curious to know if any of you that think that NTP deserves $600M+ feel our patent system works well?
That is a red herring. First of all, whether or not I think NTP was correct or not does not allow me to put a monetary value on it, so I couldn't support or refute the $600M. What would allow me to do that is have a sense of the standard royalty for this kind of technology, the projected lifespan of the product using the patent in question, the amount of revenues over said time period, etc. I know none of that. Second, our patent system can work great in my opinion and I can still disagree with this outcome, or I can like this outcome and still think the patent system is flawed.
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