BBC On Patents
By Robert Ellison. Updated on Thursday, November 12, 2015.
"The patent system in the USA is so distorted it's now more lucrative for companies known as 'patent trolls' to sue manufacturers rather than actually make anything. The problem's so serious that President Obama has got involved -- and British companies are targeted if they do business in the US. Rory Cellan-Jones investigates and finds one of the world's biggest trolls in his lair in Dallas."
Patently Absurd is available to stream for the next six days (the BBC never took me up on the offer for a new hard drive).
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(Published to the Fediverse as: BBC On Patents #politics #patents The BBC's 'Patently Absurd' program on patent abuse which is of course no longer available. )
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