![]() ![]() Microsoft, as we noted in our previous post, only began doing this a decade ago (to present), around the same time of Windows Vista and the Novell deal. They see patent aggression as a sort of ‘insurance policy’ or a Plan B. ![]() As things begin to turn sour/bitter, as is already the case at IBM, the non-technical managers are turning aggressive and even attacking with any software patents at their disposal. Now, the usual defense (not just from Google) might be that Google never attacks using patents unless attacked first, but then again, that’s just what happens in companies when they’re on the way up (ascent). ![]() It is now actively pursuing patents on software (including patents on driving - something for which I developed an Android app with help from someone who worked at Google) and no wonder Google does nothing against software patents anymore. In some sense, Google has become greedy and sort of defected. Basically, Google erroneously made the choice to waste time and effort on patenting rather than fight an unjust system that had increasingly ganged up against Google. This is not a cause for celebration but a cause for alarm as over half a decade ago Google was somewhat of a patents antagonist and I spoke to relatively high-level managers at Google about it. ![]() Summary: Persistent lobbying and a surrender of fast-growing companies to the system which was deformed so as to offer protectionism to the super-rich take their toll and distort the very essence that motivated patent systems in the first placeĪCCORDING TO this dubious new chart from IAM, it’s not IBM but Google that supposedly leads based on some patent criteria. Now he makes billions out of various patents, including Monsanto’s, and he pays virtually no tax. Remember Bill Gates ranting about the patent system when he was younger and Microsoft was a lot smaller. Not your grandfather’s patent system and not your grandfather’s IBM…Ĭreating virtual wealth. Posted in Google, IBM, Microsoft, OIN, Patents at 1:00 pm by Dr. 06.05.16 IBM, Google and Microsoft Patent Stockpiles Demonstrate That Today’s US Patent System Exists for Billionaires, Not for Inventors ![]()
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