Nintendo just won another huge patent case!

[Teeqoz]

fatslob-:O said:

Teeqoz said:

Being aquired by a larger company is a choice. Being destroyed by a larger company in a "fair" fight because they have access to the exact tech you invented isn't a choice. Go ask any start-up (That has anything to do with patents) if they'd prefer to have the option of selling the company to a bigger company, or don't sell it and continue to expand your business all by yourself, OR if they'd want to give all that research to the larger company for free, so that they don't even have to buy the company to get the tech, cause they get it for free.

Thankfully, a patentless future won't happen, so I won't bother to discuss this any further.

If your only goal was to be acquired by a bigger business why not just apply for employment over there instead ? 

Who's to say that a patent free future won't happen ? 

Who the hell said it was the only goal? It is an option. If you think your business will do better under a bigger company (and if the sum is big enough...) you'd sell, but if you wanted to remain in control of your business, so as to grow and become a major player yourself, you don't sell.

 

Haha, I'm to say. Patent free future won't happen, at least not as long as I live, and thank god for that.

BTW, at your "How else could Apple succeed as a business? They STEAL!", well no, not really. They innovate. If everyone could use Apple's ideas, they wouldn't have succeeded as a business. You know what other companies wouldn't have succeeded without patents? Intel, AMD, Micron Technology, Sony, Samsung, Microsoft, Tesla etc. The list goes on and on. Patents are crucial for small companies to succeed, because if big companies could use their ideas however they pleased, they would never get big.