Seyfarth Shaw LLP - Robert Milligan and Darren W. Dummit; Self-Driving to Federal Prison: The Trade Secret Theft Saga of Anthony Levandowski Continues
"Judge Aslup, while steadfastly respectful of Levandowski as a good person and as a brilliant man who the world would learn a lot listening to, nevertheless found prison time to be the best available deterrent to engineers and employees privy to trade secrets worth billions of dollars to competitors: “You’re giving the green light to every future engineer to steal trade secrets,” he told Levandowski’s attorneys. “Prison time is the answer to that.” To further underscore the importance of deterring similar behavior in the high stakes tech world, Judge Aslup required Levandowski to give the aforementioned public speeches describing how he went to prison."
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The problem with patents; Winnipeg Free Pres, June 10, 2017
Martin Cash, Winnipeg Free Press; The problem with patents
"The discovery that another manufacturer was using the "idle mode" feature was worrisome, but Tessier figured it would be dealt with because he had a patent with the understanding that he had a 20-year monopoly on that particular technology.
He found out fairly quickly was on his own and all the "monopoly" really meant was that he had the right to spend around $1 million in legal fees to compel others to acknowledge his market rights.
"Over the last year or so, I’ve learned an awful lot about patent protection," Tessier said. "Now I have to ask, why bother with a patent in the first place?"
His concerns are not just the fevered thoughts of a harried entrepreneur whose hard-won market share is being encroached on unfairly by a competitor with much greater resources and market heft.
It is, in fact, a long-standing gap in the dynamics of patent protection regulations that’s been well-known to patent professionals for some time.
Adrian Battison, a veteran patent agent with Ade & Company of Winnipeg, said, "It is a problem I have been worrying about for a long time. There is no question the enforcement of patents is a significant problem. You can obtain a Canadian patent for between $5,000 and $10,000 but to litigate it can cost $500,000 to $1 million. The average person with no access to sums of money simply can’t manage that kind of situation.""
"The discovery that another manufacturer was using the "idle mode" feature was worrisome, but Tessier figured it would be dealt with because he had a patent with the understanding that he had a 20-year monopoly on that particular technology.
He found out fairly quickly was on his own and all the "monopoly" really meant was that he had the right to spend around $1 million in legal fees to compel others to acknowledge his market rights.
"Over the last year or so, I’ve learned an awful lot about patent protection," Tessier said. "Now I have to ask, why bother with a patent in the first place?"
His concerns are not just the fevered thoughts of a harried entrepreneur whose hard-won market share is being encroached on unfairly by a competitor with much greater resources and market heft.
It is, in fact, a long-standing gap in the dynamics of patent protection regulations that’s been well-known to patent professionals for some time.
Adrian Battison, a veteran patent agent with Ade & Company of Winnipeg, said, "It is a problem I have been worrying about for a long time. There is no question the enforcement of patents is a significant problem. You can obtain a Canadian patent for between $5,000 and $10,000 but to litigate it can cost $500,000 to $1 million. The average person with no access to sums of money simply can’t manage that kind of situation.""
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