{"id":3995,"date":"2011-11-15T16:27:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T21:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2011-11-15T16:27:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T21:27:32","slug":"the-real-cost-of-patent-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/the-real-cost-of-patent-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Cost of Patent Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/12636\">Adam C. Engst<\/a> on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/scholarship\/workingpapers\/documents\/Bessen-Ford-Meurer-no-11-45rev.pdf\">paper from Boston University<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/12636\"><p>[T]he cost has averaged $80 billion per year. Moreover, very little of this money ever makes it to the actual inventors, meaning that the money lost by defendants doesn&rsquo;t incentivize other inventors. In short, software patents (for most of this behavior surrounds them) are simply a drag on innovation and real progress.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam C. Engst on a paper from Boston University: [T]he cost has averaged $80 billion per year. Moreover, very little of this money ever makes it to the actual inventors, meaning that the money lost by defendants doesn&rsquo;t incentivize other inventors. In short, software patents (for most of this behavior surrounds them) are simply a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3996,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions\/3996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}