Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 21, 2004 04:07 PM
As recent events have shown, many American companies have much less cash than they claim. Even with alot of cash, expensive lawsuits that do not generate any income is a fast way of burning cash.
The court system is also not infinitely fast, in fact it is often quite slow with commercial cases taking years before a hearing. Piles of frivolous patent cases would totally bog the courts.
Virtually nobody was prosecuted in the Texas Savings and Loan swindles/crash mostly as a result of the courts clogging up with millions of defaults. Perpertrators and victoms figured out it would take a few hundred years before their cases would come up for hearing.
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Re:Enforcing Patents
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 21, 2004 04:07 PMThe court system is also not infinitely fast, in fact it is often quite slow with commercial cases taking years before a hearing. Piles of frivolous patent cases would totally bog the courts.
Virtually nobody was prosecuted in the Texas Savings and Loan swindles/crash mostly as a result of the courts clogging up with millions of defaults. Perpertrators and victoms figured out it would take a few hundred years before their cases would come up for hearing.
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