The Patents I Never Filed

There's a few things that I could have patented in the '80s and 90's, but didn't, becase they were in my engineering supervisors word's: "F______g obvious." Later I went back and found out that someone elsewhere did receive a patent on some of these ideas. Don't know if they received money for any licenses, but somewhere in a corporate vault/storage are my engineering logbooks in case of a legal dispute.

Mark Cuban is interesting person. Back in the day (Web 1.0 and Audionet), I had lunch with him and a few others at the Infomart. I questioned his business, since at the time a single radio station had more listeners than what was capable with the bandwidth of the Internet then. He said, "X, we don't sell the steak, we sell the sizzle."

I think if you're a billionaire already, the better strategy would be to file those patents and never prosecute anyone because of them. Not filing for a patent leaves the option for a patent troll to do so.

He's at least 10 years late on multicast networks. Here's the 1985 RFC that's considerably more detailed than his from 1996: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc966

Mark Cuban is the worst.