[Stoves] A little more on patents and what is happening around you

Crispin Pemberton-Pigott crispinpigott at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 09:42:04 CDT 2011


Dear Phone Friendly Friends

 

I will not summarise this. It is what happens when the technologies get
complicated and everyone's patents are little increments on other existing
ones.

 

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/owning-the-stack-the-legal-w
ar-for-control-of-the-smartphone-platform.ars

 

 

Living here in BlackBerry town (Waterloo) there is always a buzz about
what's new and patenting is strongly encouraged. My son filed 13 patents in
15 months on things to do with phones.  The sheer number of them is mind
boggling.

 

If you want to use someone else's stove patent that you are building on,
making something new in the process, and licencing is refused, you can try
to force the patent owner to allow you to do so as long as you pay a
reasonable royalty. This is called a compulsory licence and you can argue
for it in court. 

 

The whole scene is a lot more complicated than it first seems. The article
linked above is about what happens where most of the major players are rich,
heavily invested and scared of each other.



Regards

Crispin

 

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