> > C'est bill gates qui a fait un mémo sur le fait de breveté tout ce qui était possible de l'être, non ?
> IBM fait de meme, pourtant tout le monde encense IBM pour sa recherche, marrant les 2 poids 2 mesures.
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today." ... "The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors." Bill Gates
Cf http://fsffrance.org/news/article2003-06-20/cspla-2003年06月20日.ps(...)
"You get value from patents in two ways," says Roger Smith, IBM Assistant General Counsel, intellectual property law. "Through fees, and through licensing negotiations that give IBM access to other patents". "The IBM patent portfolio gains us the freedom to do what we need to do through cross-licensing---it gives us access to the inventions of others that are the key to rapid innovation. Access is far more valuable to IBM than the fees it receives from its 9,000 active patents. There's no direct calculation of this value, but it's many times larger than the fee income, perhaps an order of magnitude larger".
Cf http://abul.org/article50.html(...)
[^] # Re: Microsoft pris dans la toile... chronique d'une mort annoncée
Posté par Benoît Sibaud (site web personnel) . En réponse à la dépêche Microsoft pris dans la toile... chronique d'une mort annoncée. Évalué à 4.
> IBM fait de meme, pourtant tout le monde encense IBM pour sa recherche, marrant les 2 poids 2 mesures.
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today." ... "The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors." Bill Gates
Cf http://fsffrance.org/news/article2003-06-20/cspla-2003年06月20日.ps(...)
"You get value from patents in two ways," says Roger Smith, IBM Assistant General Counsel, intellectual property law. "Through fees, and through licensing negotiations that give IBM access to other patents". "The IBM patent portfolio gains us the freedom to do what we need to do through cross-licensing---it gives us access to the inventions of others that are the key to rapid innovation. Access is far more valuable to IBM than the fees it receives from its 9,000 active patents. There's no direct calculation of this value, but it's many times larger than the fee income, perhaps an order of magnitude larger".
Cf http://abul.org/article50.html(...)