The patent troll debate has officially heated up and the nation’s businesses are paying close attention to the proceedings. The FTC got things started on December 10, 2012 at the Patent Assertion Activities Workshop. This meeting featured several of the country’s leading experts on PAEs, as well as representatives of PAE firms and their defendants,…
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Guest Post: Patent Trolls Stifle Innovation
by Alan Schoenbaum •
Over the last several months, we have been vocal in our calls for software patent reform to put an end to the threat of lawsuits on behalf of patent assertion entities (PAEs), more commonly known as patent trolls. Why? Because at Rackspace it has become our most pressing legal issue. Since 2010, our spending to…