[NUUG patent] CNN Money: "Patent trolls cost inventors half a trillion dollars"

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Mon Oct 10 19:23:28 CEST 2011


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<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 håper flere forsker på patentsystemet fremover.

Vennlig hilsen,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen


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