Intellectual Ventures is structured as a series of funds. By investing in a particular fund, you purchase equity in the company plus residuals from certain types of patents, depending on the fund. You won’t find too much information about their internal workings online, because they are privately-held and while…
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Thanks, I guess. I’m actually totally right, though, so you might want to update your post.
Maybe call it the “use it or lose it” patent system*!
So only corporations with in-house R&D departments should be allowed patent protection?
They paid money to secure those intellectual rights. Why wouldn’t they pursue litigation to protect those rights? The whole entire concept of patents is that by granting special, transferable rights to inventors, it encourages innovation and everyone is happy. Are patents not encouraging innovation? Are you not happy?…
The problem is that patents purely exist for litigation reasons.
Lower patent protection to 5 years if brought to market, 2 years otherwise. Make patents non-transferable. Just fucking get rid of copyrights.
Anyone who has a problem with “patent trolls” really just has a problem with patents.
Nine-one-one changed everything!
Thing is, if the swatter isn't a complete moron, there is practically no chance of them getting caught.
36. Where is the Imperial Valley and what is it noted for?
I hate it when any of these trash subsites gets linked on Gawker..
The other way to look at it is 'When was the last GOOD SimCity game?' 2000, 15 years ago?
The only racism going on here is white Americans telling the Japanese that they need to be more like white Americans and less like Japanese savages.
An American perspective is ALWAYS called for! We are the ultimate arbiters of what is and is not acceptable culture, after all!
Yeah, people getting upset about this are forgetting that the whole reason this shit is offensive in America is our history of slavery and segregation of black people, neither of which ever happened in Japan.
I guess it's to be expected when they all sit in the same big room with the Gawker and Jezebel people and listen to that SJW bullshit all day, every day.
Yeah, let's snuggle up to our new cultural allies. I'm sure they don't want to ban any of the games I play!
Why didn't we listen to those smart people in the 80's who warned us about video games!?