Intellectual Puppetry’s Comments

• Apr 29th, 2011 @ 9:00pm

  Re: Patent tax

  on Unintended Consequences Of Google's $900 Million Nortel Patent Bid: Creating New Patent Trolls
  More like $3-5. Much, much more is spent on marketing, and useless stuff like Bing, and Windows Mobile.
  
  Thank God for XBox, though!
• Apr 29th, 2011 @ 8:58pm

  Re: we�re not going to pay

  on Unintended Consequences Of Google's $900 Million Nortel Patent Bid: Creating New Patent Trolls
  Dissembling? WTF?
  
  Who cares about an injunction when you can just get a reasonable royalty?!?
  
  And a patent NEVER provides "exclusive use of [an] invention." Rather, it allows one to exclude others from making, using or selling an invention. The distinction is subtle, but very important, as the invention may itself rely on one or more other patents.
  
  Really?
• Apr 29th, 2011 @ 8:54pm

  Re: Cry me a river. The poor robber barons.

  on Unintended Consequences Of Google's $900 Million Nortel Patent Bid: Creating New Patent Trolls
  What in the world does Microsoft have to do with the cell phone market? (Except perhaps for a feeble attempt to compete with Apple and Google's Android. Can't leave any market untouched, after all. Great commercials though! "Really?")
  
  By far the largest part of your cellular telephone bill is the huge capital cost of building and maintaining cell sites and networks in the face of tree-huggers who want five bars but don't want to see a new cell site built anywhere near them.
• Apr 29th, 2011 @ 8:51pm

  Re:

  on Unintended Consequences Of Google's $900 Million Nortel Patent Bid: Creating New Patent Trolls
  The existence is mandated by the establishment in law of patents as personal property. Like your house, your car, and your chattel, they can be freely alienated. This props up their value. If you can't capitalize on your hard-earned patents, perhaps someone else can.
  
  Can anyone tell me what is wrong with that?
• Apr 29th, 2011 @ 8:48pm

  Re: So?

  on Unintended Consequences Of Google's $900 Million Nortel Patent Bid: Creating New Patent Trolls
  And what, pray tell, was the "intended purpose" of patents, IYHO?