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Originally Posted by teh603
Never thought about licensing it? Gives you a lot more control over the rights than a flat- out sale.
IMO, just making patents to sell is kinda like starting a company whose only goal is to be bought out by a bigger company. Its like how toy companies trying to get bought out by Wal-Mart, or tech companies trying to get bought out by Google; the products they made were usually second- rate or non- existent, and they hadn't even tried licensing out what patents and copyrights they had.
Kinda degrades the entrepreneurial spirit, doesn't it? Believing that the best overall outcome is to be consumed by a growing megacorp?
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There are inventors who are only good at inventing, and couldn't run a company. For them, it makes sense to invent, and sell the patent so they can go back to inventing something else. The problem is with nonsense patents that get through the system.