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I'm a small-scale independent inventor with few resources and have a patent that I believe is being infringed by a large company. I fear that if I approach the company on my own, I will have little leverage in negotiating with them, and I lack the resources to take them to court.

What can I do about an infringer if all I'm a small independent inventor with limited resources other than my patent?

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Become a troll. Or join up with one. Or sell out to one. Or sell to someone else who wants your patent for other reasons.

There are now a very large number of investors and attorneys who will help you to monetize your patent - provided they think they can make money from it. Almost all of them would be described as patent trolls, more politely known as "non-practicing entities" or NPEs. These are the guys who provide Davids with slings and stones to go up against Goliaths - for a piece of the action.

For some reasonably accurate background on the term "patent troll", check out the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll

BTW, you could also offer to sell your patent to practicing entities other than your suspected infringer in the appropriate technological field. Your patent could be an arrow in the quiver of any entity who contests with the large company that you suspect is infringing your patent.

The principle is much the same in any case - trying to determine a net present value of the patent in the marketplace. Making such a determination has little to do with judging whether your invention is worthy as being original and much more to do with judging how much money can be extracted from the broader world of commerce via ownership of the patent.

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Le Aug 6, 2012 à 7:00 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> The video above is a demo of the reaction inside the cylinder of the papp
> engine. You will note the formation of ball lightning inside the transparent
> cylinder as the noble gas explodes. IMHO, this marks the formation of Rydberg
> mater with mediates the intense electron shielding that reduces the coulomb
> barrier of the noble gases to the point of fusion.

Axil, your sense of humor is very dry. Many people do not realize you are
speaking tongue-in-cheek.

Eric

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The use of the word "troll" in this phrase is a sly linguistic trick. On the one hand, it contains the sense of the fishing activity in which a baited line is dragged through water, usually from the back of a slow moving boat. On the other hand, it also refers to a being from the old Scandinavian legends that's usually depicted as a dwarf (although sometimes as a giant) that lives in a cave or under a bridge. (Both senses date from the 17th century.)

So a "patent troll" is, officially, someone who fishes around for unused patents, but is also, unofficially, a low, inhuman creature who only uses those patents for litigious purposes.

Here's an earlier citation that uses the phrase in a slightly different way:
Although Wang believes that Intel has occasionally been too quick to sue rather than settle, he maintains that the company is defending a solid patent position. Lee contrasts Intel with Stac Electronics, which last June launched a splashy patent suit against IIT's lossless data-compression processor before anyone had even seen a chip. The suit collapsed, but not before helping to sour the market for the IIT device. Wang says that he worries more about these fanciful suits from out of left field than about suits by companies like Intel. As for the Japanese, now depicted as the new patent trolls, Wang believes that for political and cultural reasons they are taking a merely defensive stance.
-"When Intel Doesn't Sue," Forbes, March 29, 1993

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>Tad
>to...@pulsar.telcom.tek.com

You are so far beyond being able to understand anything anyone here
says that this is just converging on uselessness. The really sad part
is that you really believe that you're winning. You are a shocking
waste of natural resources - kindly re-integrate yourself into the
food-chain. Just go die in your sleep you mindless flatulent troll.

    -MSM

Q: What's the difference between T^d's brain and a brick?
A: The brick weighs more.

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The most likely derivation of the word troll can be found in the phrase "trolling for newbies", popularized in the early 1990s in the Usenet group, alt.folklore.urban (AFU).

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Clearance search. A standard practice is to perform a clearance search for patents or pending patent applications that cover important features of a potential product, before its initial development or commercial introduction. For example, a search by Thomas Edison uncovered a prior patent by two Canadian inventors, Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans for carbon filament in a non-oxidizing environment, (U.S. Patent 181,613), the type of light bulb Edison wanted to develop. Edison bought the patent for US$5,000 ($120,414 in present-day terms[46]) to eliminate the possibility of a later challenge by Woodward and Evans.

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У меня она в биосе отключена, кстати, изолента для нубов.

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