Monday, November 28, 2005

A Big Possible Change to Patent Law

SCOTUS is going to review their precedence that allows courts to grant injunctions againts patent infringers. This could be huge and most certainly will require some sort of groundwork to be laid for a mandatory licensing scheme. Keep in mind that mandatory licensing exists today. However, when the licenser is allowed to set license price at, say, infinity hojillion dollars, it might as well not.

Read the breakdown provided by Ars here.

Raul out.

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