3d Spherical Panning Patent Lawsuits

[Snyder]

Re: Is McKool Smith the plaintiff?

Patents should be non-transferrable. That way, they can perform their originally intended function--protecting inventors' R&D investment--but they can't be sold to shell companies whose primary income source is litigation.

Well, there are a ton of things that could be done to improve US patent law, but I'm not certain making patents non-transferrable would be one of them. What would you do with a company's patents if that company goes out of business, for example?

Release them to the public?

 

[mczak]

Re: Is McKool Smith the plaintiff?

Release them to the public?

That would certainly be preferable to sell them to some "IP business" whose business model is to produce lawsuits