There Is a Role for Congress in Patent Litigation Reform
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| Barfield and Calfee’s Biotechnology and the Patent System is correct about
| the importance of the patent system to American innovation. But patent
| litigation is broken, and Congress is every bit as qualified as--and often
| more qualified than--the courts to fix it. Patent reforms are possible that
| discourage patent trolls while protecting the rights of both legitimate
| patent-holders and defendants and satisfying the "do no harm"[46] principle
| of Barfield and Calfee.
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http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27550,filter.all/pub_detail.asp
Related:
Yahoo Patent Troll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvFUSHwRXJE
Who is the world's biggest patent troll?
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| In two consecutive days, The Wall Street Journal presented two different
| answers. The first is not surprising: Intellectual Ventures, the brainchild
| of ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold. It's now out "to raise as much as
| $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from
| universities in Asia."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9816163-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Playing Microsoft Patent Poker
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| This time though, while Ballmer slinks away to try to con … convince people
| that Microsoft Unified Communications somehow offers people more than what
| Cisco's VOIP (voice over IP) been offering customers for years, a patent
| attack finally launches at Linux. Specifically, IP Innovation, a subsidiary
| of Acacia Technologies Group, has filed a patent infringement claim against
| Linux distributors Novell and Red Hat.
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| So was it just timing, or was it something more? Let's take a look at the
| players.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2201579,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
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