Invention Fund

Published: July 29, 2007, 9:41 pm

Q A lot of folks who don’t know your model have classified you as a patent troll. Not just anybody, but even Shane Robison, the chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard.A That’s a strange thing. HP has a large group headed by a good guy named Joe Byers. They actively go out and demand royalties from companies for their patents. I’ve been told they make around $200 million a year. They have filed maybe a dozen lawsuits in the last 12 years. . . . It’s only fair for them to defray their R&D costs by asking people to pay for things. Because of the way the patent law works, you can ask people to pay or you can use a patent to exclude people.I’m not saying there is anything wrong with what HP does. But my God, talk about the pot calling the kettle black. I don’t understand any difference whatsoever from HP inventing things and asking to get paid for them, and me eventually, someday, maybe I’m going to sue someone. I’ve never sued

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