Indeed.
In one group their was a little troll who filed a patent on the entire
standard. They then extorted stock which probably fetched a seven
figure sum when a company using the specification launched their IPO.
Given the sorry fact that the bar to granting a patent in the US is
very low, the bigger problem in my view is that it is difficult to get
any 'clever' idea into a spec since even if the proposer is acting in
good faith there is resistance to anything that might be too good an
idea.
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Fred Baker <fred(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Jul 25, 2010, at 6:07 AM, John R. Levine wrote:
The ability of users to sign up from throwaway accounts doesn't seem to have
been a big problem in practice, but it does make it hard to claim that the
lists are free of submarine patent trolls.
A person's identity and their behavior are two different things. I would
presume that every IETF working group or BOF list has at least one person on
it who is lurking in the discussion for the purpose of filing a frivolous
lawsuit later. Not sure how we can prevent that.
http://www.ipinc.net/IPv4.GIF
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