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1. Alex_M+(OP)[view] [source] 2014-06-12 18:07:18
(1) I love this.

(2) Having limited legal knowledge, I'm curious what he means with "a lottery ticket to a lawsuit". Is he indicating that patenting something would make a company more likely to get sued? My basic understanding is the opposite, that patents yield protection from lawsuits rather than create exposure to them. Is this flawed?

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2. TeMPOr+Z[view] [source] 2014-06-12 18:16:15
>>Alex_M+(OP)
Looking at software patents, I read (2) as saying that a patent is a lottery ticket, in which winning tickets are the patents someone accidentally infringed, thus opening a way for you to sue them out of their money.
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