They can make it more if they tell Google to either recall all their patent-infringing devices, or pay them more for a license.
Patents allow you to do that. A patent is a temporary monopoly on a technology, after all.
Patents allow you to do that. A patent is a temporary monopoly on a technology, after all.
Patent duration today should maybe be measured in a function of the value it has produced measured in something relatively fixed like gold. It would be relative to the impact and would also throttle regulatory and market capture and wealth imbalances.
The current parent duration based on the celestial orbits around the closest star is dumb and blunt. My proposal would accelerate technology dissemination and prevent many of the overburden issues.
They eventually cancelled chromecast audio altogether, probably at least partly due to this.