Nation-states enter contentious patent-buying business

Countries are starting to get into the patent business; countries like France and South Korea are setting up patent entities to protect domestic companies. “Intellectual Discovery presents itself as a defensive alliance: if a South Korean company finds itself targeted in a lawsuit, for instance, it can access the patents being compiled by Intellectual Discovery to hit back.” I support this. If, say, a small Dutch company were to come under unfair patent aggression by bullies like Apple and Microsoft (quite likely these days), I damn well expect my government to protect them from it. If you can’t fix the system, work with it. As simple as that.

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