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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
No you aren't. You are getting paid for your ingenuity. And that has nothing to do with this case anyway. A co-founder worked most of his life in wireless message delivery. Just because he wasn't a successful business man at it doesn't mean he was a squatter undeserving of any compensation.
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I respectfully disagree. To me, claiming ownership of an idea, letting someone else go through the efforts of marketing it, and then going back to threaten legal action for
their success, flies in the face of capitalism altogether. If you are not a good businessman, then pair up with someone who
is. I'd go so far as to say that intellectual property should only be as valuable as their implementation.
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
I am simply disagreeing with the "patent-squatting" meme.
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But that was exactly their intent.
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In 1992, Mr. Campana and Mr. Stout agreed to form NTP. The company was never about making things or selling things. It was about protecting potentially valuable ideas, some of which dealt with sending messages to wireless devices. And for nearly a decade, Mr. Campana's patents lay dormant, just waiting for RIM to produce the BlackBerry.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...28.wxcover0128
Campana couldn't implement it, so he decides to own it so that if someone else does a better job than him at implementing it, then they'll pay him a royalty. Arguably, some of those patents probably never saw the light of day in a board office; their feasibility never discussed, explored, or attempted.