Patent infringements
Imagine that:
You run a company calle Justsystem and develop a wordprocessing programmes in 1985 . Until now, you have shipped about 18 million of those programmes. The programme has to be purchased separately from the computer, and thus, this high number is quite an achievement.
Now, in 1998, a company called Matsushita, which produces products under the popular name Panasonic, registers a patent in Japan, and initiates a lawsuit to ask you to stop the production of the programme. The dispute centers on the way that a help function works.
The court agrees with Matsushita and asks Justsystem to destroy all existing stocks of the program.
Patents are a funny ways to protect your turf. Simply said - just re-engineer a product, that hasn't been patented and apply for a patent. What's your thinking?
(By Asia Business Consulting)
You run a company calle Justsystem and develop a wordprocessing programmes in 1985 . Until now, you have shipped about 18 million of those programmes. The programme has to be purchased separately from the computer, and thus, this high number is quite an achievement.
Now, in 1998, a company called Matsushita, which produces products under the popular name Panasonic, registers a patent in Japan, and initiates a lawsuit to ask you to stop the production of the programme. The dispute centers on the way that a help function works.
The court agrees with Matsushita and asks Justsystem to destroy all existing stocks of the program.
Patents are a funny ways to protect your turf. Simply said - just re-engineer a product, that hasn't been patented and apply for a patent. What's your thinking?
(By Asia Business Consulting)
posted by Andreas @ 5:32 pm
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