From the San Jose Mercury News a piece about the potential impact of Elon Musk's decision to change Tesla's patent policy.
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I found this bit interesting (emphasis mine)...
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In fact, more than $20 billion in venture capital investments would have likely been made in the past five years "but for (patent) litigation brought by frequent litigators," according to a recent study by a professor of marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management and funded by the Computers and Communication Industry Association, a tech policy group.
With that kind of money involved this could be the kind of thing that starts wholesale patent reform,
