Washington Post: Gizmodo senior reporter Mat Honan disagrees, arguing that patent trolling is suffocating America’s ability to innovate, particularly in the technology sector. Honan wrote on Tuesday, “These are the tapeworms crawling through the nutrient-rich belly of American innovation, full of bile and [expletive], slowly starving us to death.”
Sigh.
Interesting that it’s not just groups like Lodsys any more. Companies like Apple, among others, have now started using patent suits to prevent competitors from gaining market share.
Patents should be used to prevent the big boys from taking advantage of the little guys; not to suffocate innovation and competition.
Jay,
You need to see my earlier post.
Software Patents Are Good, Right?