GAO Report on Patent Litigation Confirms No “Patent Troll” Litigation Problem

Posted by khalling 10 years, 4 months ago to Business
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"This was previously posted to the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property Blog on October 4, and given that Congress is rushing headlong into enacting legislation to respond to an alleged crisis over “patent trolls,” it bears reposting if only to show that Congress is ignoring its own experts in the Government Accountability Office who officially reported this past August that there’s no basis for this legislative stampede."
Adam Mossoff, the author, is Professor of Law and Co-Director of Academic Programs and a Senior Scholar in the Center for Protection of Intellectual Property at George Mason.


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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 4 months ago
    I wish I could follow all of this... Can you nutshell it for me?
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  • Posted by 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    there is no increase in patent litigation- "troll" activity is poorly defined. Is IBM a troll when they sue over a patent they never implemented? how about universities or Thomas Edison or Tesla among others. there is some abuse in patent litigation- compared to med mal or securities or workmans comp, product liability-it does not compare
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