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patent licensing - RF Cafe Forums
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Post subject: patent licensing
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:01 am
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Joined: Thu Sep 25, 2003
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Location: texarcana
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I've patented a couple circuits in the past. I even
actual sold one, but I'm embarassed to say for how
much and how long it took.
I'd like hear
any comments on selling or licensing IP you may
have. Especially any pertaining to an indivisual
inventor dealing with an electronics company.
Needless to say, I came up with an interesting
circuit, but part of me wants to just pretend I
didn't.
Thanks, and be nice.
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:38 pm
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Somebody please reply to me, even if you have to
make something up.
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:15 pm
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Greetings yendori: OK, I'll keep you company
So, what is the number for your patent?
Anyone interested in looking it up for comment can
do so here:
http://patft1.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm
From what I read, most patents are never actually
called upon to protect a product from infringement,
so the inventors and inventions sit idly in the
annals of the USPTO forever. However, with the newly
created venue of patent auctions like the one in
San Francisco, recently, where one inventor sold
a patent for about $1.5M (most sold nothing), anything
is possible. Of course, there is the personal satisfaction
gained from having had an idea that someone considers
to be worth protecting.
http://www.oceantomo.com/auctions.html
Most large companies like to collect patents
to build an arsenal in case they ever have to go
up against another company in court. Company A sifts
through its stack of patents and threatens to sue
Company B for infringement, but Company B sifts
through its own stack of patents and finds one with
which it can threaten to sue Company A, and both
parties ultimately agree to ignore each other. The
lawyers aren't happy about it, but the bean counters
are. I do not own any patents, and the way
things are going, I probably never will. All that's
left for me is to envy those who do. Good job!
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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