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Who really owns those patents that I thought I owned? (masshightech.com)
11 points by zem on Feb 25, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Seems like your wholly-owned subsidiary that is commercializing your patents is returning its profits to you as a royalty, and therefore its marginal profit on sales should be used as a guide to calculate the "reasonable royalty" that is your acknowledged due.


Gosh, US patent law is more messed up than I thought. Not only do The Lawyers get a huge cut of the money on any "infringement" cases, but you have to pay them along the way to make sure that you get your rightful infringement vengence.


Nathan Myhrvold




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