Google Launches a Marketplace To Buy Patents From Interested Sellers 40
An anonymous reader writes: Google has announced an experimental marketplace called the Patent Purchase Promotion, which aims to keep patents out of the hands of patent trolls. From the announcement: "By simplifying the process and having a concentrated submission window, we can focus our efforts into quickly evaluating patent assets and getting responses back to potential sellers quickly. Hopefully this will translate into better experiences for sellers, and remove the complications of working with entities such as patent trolls."
The evil plan (Score:4, Funny)
Patent troll (Score:3, Funny)
so will Google become a patent troll themselves?
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so will Google become a patent troll themselves?
Ah, that's King Troll to you, patent peasant.
Please ensure you address your patent overlords appropriately.
Sooooo..... (Score:1)
Google is currently looking into building potentially the largest patent library on the planet that they double pinky swear not to abuse? Sounds legit.
Better than Google+ (Score:5, Funny)
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You know nobody gives a crap, right?
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No worries about Getting modded down. I have excellent Karma now, I had excellent Karma in the past, and in between I've had BAD Karma. Easy come easier go. The time it took me to go from Excellent to bad was about two days (experiment), to get back to Excellent took about a month.
Which only proves one thing, it is easier to lose Good Karma Points than it is to get it back.
The thing that I change wasn't my view, it was simply how I presented my view.
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Presenting Microsoft in a positive light. Wasn't probably needed to support your point, and enough kneejerk Slashdotters think MS can do nothing right... and for the most part, they are correct, but broken clocks are right twice a day.
Or asking a misplaced question (Off Topic)
or both.
Which patent trolls ... (Score:2, Troll)
Sorry, but am I supposed to believe this will create anything other than a different kind of patent troll?
Putting a bunch more patents into Google's hands doesn't prevent them from being patent trolls. This is purely about letting Google buy more patents, not protecting us from patent trolls.
Greedy bastards.
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It stands to reason that a company in the public eye, and one that is already painfully aware of and carefully 'managing' public image issues around the world, would be an improvement over the current seemingly anonymous patent trolls. It is not remotely a perfect solution, but it may be a step towards public accountability for abuses of the abject mess that is the current "pa
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Patent trolls are simply motivated by money, and they hardly care about being anonymous (or shamed). I suspect that all this will enable is patent sellers to create a virtually unstoppable army of mini-patent tr0lls that brings the industry to it's knees.
Mini-patent tr0lls will exactly how real-estate tr0lls currently work. Real-estate tr0lls buy up irregular lots (often thin-strips of property that border streets and various rights-of-way) that appear to have no commercial value, but they use them hold th
Re:Which patent trolls ... (Score:4, Insightful)
This IS NOT a patent clearing house. Not by a long shot.
This is Google setting up a market place where people can offer to sell Google, and ONLY Google, the opportunity to buy patents. Nobody else will be able to purchase patents with this.
This is the Google looking to expand its own patent portfolio.
This has NOTHING to do with a bunch of mini patent trolls -- just one fucking big one.
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No, you're a fucking idiot, AC.
This marketplace is for Google to buy patents, nothing more.
I never said anybody had no choice but to sell to Google. What I am saying is this marketplace Google is setting up last about a week or two, and the only buyer is Google. There simply is no other buyer in this marketplace. That's it.
The rest you can f
Patent Trafficking (Score:1)
I need more coffee. I read this title as "Google Launches a Marketplace To Buy Parents... " and was in the act of clicking on it before realizing my error.
They get it thats why I'm trying to acquire shares (Score:1)
To Protect the Industry From Patent Trolls... (Score:1)
Pretending for a moement we can trust google (Score:2)
So if we pretend that the current state of Google is trustworthy, what happens if there is a management shakeup? Or they need to sell off parts of itself to make some cash? It really seems pretty silly to think that you can trust a corporation for decades when it's trust can literally be bought and sold.
Will they buy my patentable idea? (Score:1)
Now that would interest me.