Geoff Actually - companies often develop IP with the intent to monetize their work via licensing deals - it's good business if you don't have the mfg and distribution capability.
For example - patent licensing is huge business in pharma and semiconductors. Take the biological drug - Remicade for example -developed by Centocor and licensed by J&J and Schering Plough. In the software space you have companies like IBM, Novell, RedHat and Sun that offer royalty-free patent licenses. Then there is crypto, games and gaming - the list is endless. BTW - Microsoft buys licensing rights all the time - for example http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/123144/index.html :-) D On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:46 PM, geoffrey mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Aug 16, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Danny Lieberman wrote: > >> >> I challenge you to bring one example of an Israeli startup that was able >> to profitably monetize their idea with software patent licensing. Patent >> trolls like Aerotel and NTP don't count. >> > > I can't because I am not a native Hebrew speaker/reader (less than my sons > did in first grade), so I can't properly research the subject. There is also > IMHO a fatal flaw in your argument, you are asking me for something that > people rarely do while ignoring what they often do. Companies don't patent > things with the intention of licensing those patents, except for companies > that do what you asked me not to use as examples. > > They patent things with the intention of keeping their IP their own, for > that I can almost give you a laundry list of companies off the top of my > head, Intel, SUN, Microsoft, NDS, and so on. All of whom sell products and > services outside (and inside) Israel and use patents as a way of protecting > their IP, limiting their competition. > > Then there is your notion of "first mover advantage"; most new ideas >> these days take a long time to penetrate the market - you can develop >> software in 3-5 months but it still will take 3-5 years for the business to >> grow and take root (assuming you have all the other pieces in place). >> > > > First mover advantage goes to the person who is perceived to be first, not > the person who is first. > > > Geoff. > > > -- > geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM > Jerusalem Israel geoffreymendel...@gmail.com > > > > > > -- Danny Lieberman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect your data: http://www.software.co.il Twitter: http://twitter.com/onlyjazz Skype: dannyl50 Warsaw:+48-79-609-5964 Israel: +972 8 9701485 Mobile: +972 - 54 447 1114
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