How the heck do you BUY a patent and sell licenses to multiple third parties? How does this maintain the spirit of patents where we encourage innovators?
Say I want to build a new phone in the shape of a rectangle, black, with beveled edges? oops I have to purchase licenses from a gigantic enterprise which has the patents on "rectangle", "black" and "beveled edges".
Well, maybe it's too much work to build a new piece of technology, I can't make it work with all the fire hoops to jump through! Guess I'll get into selling apples on the side of the road, that is until somebody patents that.
Say I want to build a new phone in the shape of a rectangle, black, with beveled edges? oops I have to purchase licenses from a gigantic enterprise which has the patents on "rectangle", "black" and "beveled edges".
Well, maybe it's too much work to build a new piece of technology, I can't make it work with all the fire hoops to jump through! Guess I'll get into selling apples on the side of the road, that is until somebody patents that.