Last month, I chaired a day-long PLI program discussing troll cases. The day was an excellent dialogue on changes in the law impacting troll cases and trends in defending against trolls. We heard from the general counsel of a start-up with a unique perspective on dealing with troll suits in young, growing businesses. And we
Patent Litigation Strategies for Retailers Based Upon the PWC Patent Litigation Study
I wrote last week about some key implications of PWC’s excellent 2011 patent litigation study. The study is so dense that it deserves more discussion. Here are several of the key takeaways from the study.
- Big Dollars for Trolls. Troll damages awards were nearly double those of practicing entities received by practicing entities.
- NPE’s
Fighting Fire With Fire: Strategies for Controlling Patent Troll Defense Costs
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Patent troll litigation has received some excellent media exposure this summer. First, Chicago’s Ira Glass and his This American Life team put together a phenomenal hour-long program dissecting the patent troll phenomenon – if you have not listened yet make the time, it is very well done. More recently, Santa Clara University Professor Colleen
Patent Trolls Cost Society $500 Billion Dollars, But What Does it Mean to You?
Three Boston University professors – James Bessen, Jennifer Ford and Michael Meurer — are writing a provocative law review article using empirical data to quantify the cost of patent trolls. The cost of patent trolls is clear to every retailer that I speak with, but the results of the article are still shocking:
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