linux-kernel - Re: Patent or not patent a new idea

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:11:00 -0700
From:	Bryan Henderson <hbryan@...ibm.com>
To:	manningc2@...rix.co.nz
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Graeme Sheppard" <nodes@...lion.net>
Subject: Re: Patent or not patent a new idea

>If your only purpose is to try generate a defensive patent, then just
>dumping the idea in the public domain serves the same purpose, probably
>better.
>
>I have a few patents, some of which are defensive. That has not prevented
>the USPTO issuing quite a few patents that are in clear violation of 
mine.

That's not what a defensive patent is.  Indeed, patenting something just 
so someone else can't patent it is ridiculous, because publishing is so 
much easier.

A defensive patent is one you file so that you can trade rights to it for 
rights to other patents that you need.


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