Since Fraunhofer is a notorious patent extortionist, best to not even look at this page.

aktenlage 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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wuschel 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Seconded. Would love to hear about “best Fraunhofer practices” and fort hand experience.

What could one improve how the operate?

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IshKebab 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They had patents on MP3 that were a pain in the arse 30 years ago.

	▲	vintermann an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Their last lawsuit, another "submarine patent" grift by the looks of it, was dismissed as recently as 4 days ago.

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silisili 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

	▲	vintermann an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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.