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Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public! (blog.cloudflare.com)

submitted 1 month ago by toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How's about a patent that expires 5 years after its first use by a billion+ dollar company? 5 years after it is used in more than 10,000 products? 5 years after its licensing has yielded over $1M in profit? 5 years after spending over $100k on advertising? 5 years after your first major court settlement?

I think there are ways to protect individual innovators but also lessen patent abuse

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The more fine-tooth details you put in it the easier it is to exploit or get exceptions. It's how you have a tax code where 10% tells you what to pay and 90% tells you how not to pay it.

But the only thing I would change would be a software patents should be dramatically shorter than hardware patents given the life cycle of software.