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Kee Hinckley /
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2023-12-31 20:07:04
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Kee Hinckley on Nostr: npub1sdtvw…f96z3 npub1rkjpx…jufed The “awful at licensing patents” thing ...

npub1sdtvw8y3yhksws5jf8ttl45vru06krpuuus2fys3u5exucvc4ywquf96z3 (npub1sdt…96z3) npub1rkjpxkg78c7pqdzvlgx0w6uw0puccz44gwr80v6lem0kdstgn64shjufed (npub1rkj…ufed) The “awful at licensing patents” thing reminds me of a story I heard from the minicomputer days. IBM was going from company to company, finding potential patent violations, threatening to sue, and then offering to settle by licensing the potential violating patents in exchange for whatever the company had patented. This worked fine until they got to PR1ME. PR1ME hadn’t patented anything! IBM didn’t *really* want to take their patent claims to court; that was too risky and expensive. So they just said, “Um. Okay. Never mind.” And went on to the next company.
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