Startup Seeks To Preempt Patent Trolls 117
anaesthetica writes "The WSJ reports that a San Francisco startup is buying up patents with the promise never to assert them in order to help large corporations hedge against patent trolling firms. The company, RPX Corp, receives an annual fee in exchange for licensing the patents it has purchased. Cisco and IBM have already signed up for this service of 'defense patent aggregation.'"
Patents patents patents (Score:5, Funny)
Interesting business plan, I wonder if they patented it.
Re:Interesting new business model (Score:3, Funny)
that's a nice military base you've got here...
Re:Patents patents patents (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Preempt them (Score:1, Funny)
Can someone verify the whereabouts of Pinky and The Brain please? I'm getting a little nervous.
They haven't been seen since last Friday night, when CmdrTaco did his Richard Gere impersonation
Re:Any doubt left that patents are bust ? (Score:3, Funny)
There's a whole other world outside of Slashdot, by the way.
Really? Your kidding me!
Re:Preempt them (Score:4, Funny)
Can someone verify the whereabouts of Pinky and The Brain please? I'm getting a little nervous.
"What are we going to do today, Brin?"
... try and take over the world!"
"Same thing we do every day, Sergey
Re:Extortion (Score:3, Funny)
OK, I wasn't convinced at first, but you won me over with your well-reasoned arguments.