• helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    10 months ago

    Will have? Frivolous patent-trolling has been a thing for a long time. It’s a massive waste of public resources.

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      10 months ago

      Trademarks are very different from patents. They are the one form of IP that basically everyone should be okay with. Unlike copyright and patents, they are more about consumer protection than about control.

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          10 months ago

          It absolutely is an important distinction when you’re saying “stuff like this happens a lot” with reference to patent-trolling, but there’s no such thing as “Trademark-trolling”