I've heard of that for trademarks but not for patents. I'm saying it's not true but it seems to be contradicted by the Unisys with the GIF patent and Rambus with various standards-torpedoing patents like the Rambus one,
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On 7/25/05, Justin Mason jm@jmason.org wrote:
In the US, at least, you have to police patents, too, by prosecuting infringers in the courts -- or risk losing the patents to the public domain. I don't know if this applies in Ireland too, but it seems logical.
So the ISA really just wants patents. ;)
- --j.
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