From pere at hungry.com  Mon Oct 10 19:23:28 2011
From: pere at hungry.com (Petter Reinholdtsen)
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:23:28 +0200
Subject: [NUUG patent] CNN Money: "Patent trolls cost inventors half a
	trillion dollars"
Message-ID: <2flvcrwkbfz.fsf@diskless.uio.no>


Sjekk
<URL: http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/21/technology/patent_troll_cost/ >:

  NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Patent trolls -- companies that license patents
  but do not actually sell anything -- have long been looked on with
  fiery scorn in Silicon Valley. This week, a Boston University study
  offered fresh fuel for those flames.

  Lawsuits from non-practicing entities, or NPEs -- better known as
  patent trolls -- have cost innovators $500 billion in lost wealth from
  1990 through 2010, the BU study found. The study arrived at that
  figure by observing patent defendants' stock prices following a
  lawsuit, excluding general market trends and random stock movements.

Jeg h?per flere forsker p? patentsystemet fremover.

Vennlig hilsen,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen