blocking patent

Got to stay on top of the competition, because in getting blocking patents, being second is spending money for nothing.

Most software companies, large and small, think the patent system is an obstacle to innovation given the prevalence of nonsensical blocking patents and patent trolls.

Companies and investors could become reluctant to invest in such work, fearing that years of effort could come to naught if a competitor secured a blocking patent.

You do know what GateTech has been in the business of doingT' "Yes--the blocking patent business."

A lawsuit in Delaware made it clear that Discovision's patent (David Paul Gregg was the inventor) is the basic blocking patent of the CD format.

The creation of a patent pool can save patentees and licensees time and money, and, in case of blocking patents, it may also be the only reasonable method for making the invention available to the public.

"I prefer to call them something other than blocking patents, because my feeling is that I block nothing--I merely build way stations and roads between the frontier and those who wish to reach ii:, and charge them to pass the way I have pioneered.