{"id":8457,"date":"2010-02-02T12:42:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T12:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/patent_pooling_taking_off.html"},"modified":"2010-02-02T12:42:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T12:42:33","slug":"patent-pooling-taking-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/patent-pooling-taking-off.html","title":{"rendered":"Patent Pooling Taking Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/patent\/join-the-rpx-patent-protection-club.html\">suggested<\/a> companies join the RPX patent protection club back in 2008 as I have seen how patent litigation can destroy a company&#8217;s profitability and force it to lose focus. RPX as you may remember is a firm whose goal is to allow companies to buy into a pool of patents which can be used to protect them against future lawsuits. The idea is a company will think twice about pursuing a patent lawsuit if you can countersue using a huge pool of patents.<\/p>\n<p>Since my original entry, Microsoft, Nokia and Sony have signed up for the service. I expected all the companies who signed up to be the size of RPX customer ShoreTel or even smaller so I was a bit surprised when I read about the success RPX is having with large companies. If you want to learn more, be sure to check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/feb2010\/tc2010021_382392.htm\">article<\/a> from Rachael King at BusinessWeek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suggested companies join the RPX patent protection club back in 2008 as I have seen how patent litigation can destroy a company&#8217;s profitability and force it to lose focus. RPX as you may remember is a firm whose goal is to allow companies to buy into a pool of patents which can be used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,158,168,178,170,171,179,180,181,201,202,172,215,1,182,160,162,196,163,1674,183,212,199,218,197,186,187,1677,188,1669,1676,198,1679,1673,220,221,209,1681,116,1678,156,189,203,213,214,206,211,118,1670,1109,177,174,190,204,191,205,219,175,1675],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}