patents is mostly something that big companies make use of between each other, so that they exchange between them rights of use of different pantents.
Microsoft has a patent on showing a message to user X when "john doe is typing..." for communication systems!
Microsoft would never use that patent if it couldn't actually make money from you, and if it could you'd probably pay or just give them rights to some other patent you may have...
Microsoft would never use that patent if it couldn't actually make money from you, and if it could you'd probably pay or just give them rights to some other patent you may have...