Comments on: Techdirt on Stupidity, Philips Patents a Feature to Force You to Watch Commercials http://thomashawk.com/2006/04/techdirt-on-stupidity-philips-patents-a-feature-to-force-you-to-watch-commercials.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2006/04/techdirt-on-stupidity-philips-patents-a-feature-to-force-you-to-watch-commercials.html/comment-page-1#comment-15242 Anonymous Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:08:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=2133#comment-15242 in these sorts of situations, companies can sometimes choose to patents something as a form of defense. ie: they could choose to patent it and not license it - ensuring that that idea doesnt make it into the wild.<br /><br />yeah, its a long shot, but we can all hope, right? in these sorts of situations, companies can sometimes choose to patents something as a form of defense. ie: they could choose to patent it and not license it – ensuring that that idea doesnt make it into the wild.

yeah, its a long shot, but we can all hope, right?

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