Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.<p>So DPL-licensed patents can never be used offensively in the future, but wouldn't they also greatly reduce the inventor's chances of ever making any money with their patent?<p>Large corporations will just use your patent for free, because their own patents are held by separate shell companies, so they are "part of the DPL network" by default.<p>And if you can't make any money with your patent, why make a patent? It's costly and complicated. Might as well just publicly disclose the invention (in a legally acceptable way), and the result will be the same as filing a patent under DPL.