This is a classic design-around patent, I'm not surprised they've never found a licensor and now can't find a buyer. It seems, at a glance, to be trivial to design a system that doesn't infringing this.
Perhaps it's simple to design around this specific patent (if you are even aware of its existence when you're designing your system), but what of all the other equally broad patents? The system as it is entails that there are simply too many patents for an inventor to check them all before actually inventing (never mind the fact that inventing something independently should be a defense against patent claims).
Isn't the US founded on the idea that those liberties are nearly inviolable? Where in the constitution is the idea of state secrets being more important than individual liberties?
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Perhaps it's simple to design around this specific patent (if you are even aware of its existence when you're designing your system), but what of all the other equally broad patents? The system as it is entails that there are simply too many patents for an inventor to check them all before actually inventing (never mind the fact that inventing something independently should be a defense against patent claims).
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