Comment on Apple Watch imports banned in America - Patents issues!
gregorum@lemm.ee 9 months agoCan they pay the patent fee? It may be possible that the patent holder simply doesn’t want to allow Apple to use this technology at all, and is refusing outright.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I wasn’t even sure that was possible? I guess it just seems a little antithetical to the idea of patents to just be able to wholesale ban another party from even using it at all.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thats what the patent system is designed to do.
gregorum@lemm.ee 9 months ago
sometimes an entity may object to the use of their patent for one reason or another. it usually some sort of moral or ethical thing.
jopepa@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Really interesting episode of This American Life covered a patent trolling and a lot of the finer points regarding patent law. Episode 441