The trolls became drastically more active in April, with a large cluster of filings in the days before the Senate’s patent reform bill would have made patent reform retroactive to. Of course, the reform legislation that seemed so certain died in the Senate. Repeat filers included Antennatech, c4cast, Clear With Computers, Eclipse IP, eDekka, GPNE,
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Patent Reform: The Storm Before the Calm
By R. David Donoghue on
Posted in Industry Issues, Patent Trolls
Patent trolls, and patent plaintiffs generally, were active on Wednesday. April 23. 184 cases were filed on Wednesday, by numerous plaintiffs, including Signal IP, various Joao Bock entities, Interface IP, PanTaurus, Olivistar, TQP Development, eDekka, and c4cast. Of course, it could just be a bizarre coincidence, but as Dennis Crouch points out at Patently-O,…