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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Verisign vs. ICANN
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > > In short, if you want to make money selling your patent to someone then you > > must have a valid business that loses money so that your lawsuit against > > them will have teeth. On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:46:07AM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > So the attorney creates an IP holding company to which the patent is > assigned, and the company offers to license the patent to Verisign. > When Verisign refuses, they get sued for lost revenue. The holding company must be making money from the patent to demonstrate the value of the loss. It can't be a silent owner -- these have been fairly routinely tossed out of court as meritless. > There are companies whos entire revenue stream revolves around licensing > patents / litigating. This is quite normal. Yes, but they use complicated techniques of licensing and subcompanies with demonstratable revenue to achieve those goals. It's not as simple as was suggested here. -- Joe Rhett Senior Geek Meer.net
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