Yesterday, CCIA released a study on patent trolls’ effect on the economy. Ars Technica had a great writeup of the study’s findings.
And earlier this week, Matt Levy explained why the demand letter bills are insufficient to fix the patent trollAn entity in the business of being infringed — by analogy to the mythological troll that exacted payments from the unwary. Cf. NPE, PAE, PME. See Reitzig and Henkel, Patent Trolls, the Sustainability of ‘Locking-in-to-Extort’ Strategies, and Implications for Innovating Firms. problem.
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