What's the law on preferential protection of your patents?
With copyrights and/or trademarks, I think there's something like losing the rights if you fail to defend them. So people with legitimate, inoffensive uses for things have been quashed because of corporate policy on potentially profitable legal fictions.
edit: Whoa, forgot to complete the thought. The point is, you could lose if you end up just going after the people you don't like, leaving everyone from Apple to Microsoft to Zynga free to use your patents without so much as a licensing fee or even a piece of paper saying they can.
With copyrights and/or trademarks, I think there's something like losing the rights if you fail to defend them. So people with legitimate, inoffensive uses for things have been quashed because of corporate policy on potentially profitable legal fictions.
edit: Whoa, forgot to complete the thought. The point is, you could lose if you end up just going after the people you don't like, leaving everyone from Apple to Microsoft to Zynga free to use your patents without so much as a licensing fee or even a piece of paper saying they can.