Can you elaborate on this? My guess would be, that because of their status as a government backed research institute, they invent a lot, but let others do the commercialisation. So patent fees seem like a natural choice for them, to recover their investments.
Fraunhofer has a ton of top of the line innovations. I'm glad it exists. If the only way to exist is for them to collect on patents they've produced, I don't see the issue.
I'd gladly take every Fraunhofer "innovation" 5 years later if it meant Fraunhofer didn't exist. Compression patent extortionists are the scum of the earth.
Can you elaborate on this? My guess would be, that because of their status as a government backed research institute, they invent a lot, but let others do the commercialisation. So patent fees seem like a natural choice for them, to recover their investments.
Seconded. Would love to hear about “best Fraunhofer practices” and fort hand experience.
What could one improve how the operate?
They had patents on MP3 that were a pain in the arse 30 years ago.
Their last lawsuit, another "submarine patent" grift by the looks of it, was dismissed as recently as 4 days ago.
Fraunhofer has a ton of top of the line innovations. I'm glad it exists. If the only way to exist is for them to collect on patents they've produced, I don't see the issue.
No quite the opposite.
A critic ones put this: Fraunhofer has the same of employees as Eth Zurich but just 20% of the start ups.
There are better institutions for deep tech like Sprind and even max Planck institutes.
I'd gladly take every Fraunhofer "innovation" 5 years later if it meant Fraunhofer didn't exist. Compression patent extortionists are the scum of the earth.
Who said only 5 years? How does that change if it's 20 years? Or never?
The monkey's paw curls. Now they were all invented by Oracle...