I don't know how this should be structured but there has to be some principle of "use it or lose it" for IP protections, and some limitations on transference of IP.
Obviously there are a lot of negatives to implementing some kind of legal framework around those ideas but something has got to give here, the existence of patent trolls and defensive patent strategies is offensive to the notion that we should encourage innovation.
Obviously there are a lot of negatives to implementing some kind of legal framework around those ideas but something has got to give here, the existence of patent trolls and defensive patent strategies is offensive to the notion that we should encourage innovation.