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Originally Posted by Nate the great
No, Amazon had a patent. That does not mean they had any plans to develop the idea commercially, and it generally points to the opposite.
Any time a company gets a patent before they launch a product it usually means they have no interest in launching the product. Otherwise the device would have come first.
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Do you have some statistics related to that? Cause it looks weird. I would assume that a company may wish to get a patent so that it may have some time to develop it better and make sure that other "sharks" would not get it earlier. But if it does not act according to the original intent of the patent within reasonable amount of time without serious justification, the patent should be annulled and the company should be fined, especially if there were evidences that other companies were in the development process as well, which had to be stopped because of the patent.
So, if the current patent law does a have such a dramatic logic gap, it was formulated to provide the bigger guys with the opportunities to steal the oportunities and thus the profits from the smaller guys.