I didn’t know this was a thing! Fascinating. It doesn’t seem like the economics always work similarly though. It’s fairly easy for millions of dollars of R&D to be put into a single invention, for it to be worth millions/billions on the market, and for someone else to copy it identically.
I.e. presumably Congress wouldn’t protect someone literally stripping the name off someone else’s song and publishing it and earning money from it?
Fee per patent claim is definitely interesting, just pricing it seems harder than in the song case.
I.e. presumably Congress wouldn’t protect someone literally stripping the name off someone else’s song and publishing it and earning money from it?
Fee per patent claim is definitely interesting, just pricing it seems harder than in the song case.