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2009 patent litigation study
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| The debate over patent reform has become
| more strident in the past few years as many
| of the world's largest companies face
| increasing threats of litigation from
| competitors and from organizations known as
| nonpracticing entities (NPEs) that do not
| design, manufacture, or distribute
| products.
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http://www.pwc.com/us/en/forensic-services/publications/2009-patent-litigation-study.jhtml
- From the Patent Litigation Weekly: PwC Study Shows Patent Trolls Are Thriving
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| This week, our colleague Joe Mullin, who
| writes the Patent Litigation Weekly for IP
| Law and Business, guides readers through a
| new PricewaterhouseCoopers study on patent
| litigation. What grabbed Mullins's attention
| was the significant role played by "non-
| practicing entities," the polite term for
| patent trolls. (Patent trolls are entities
| that bring or threaten litigation to enforce
| patent rights, without any intention of
| making or marketing the product at issue.)
| "Patent trolls aren't just surviving, they're
| thriving," Mullin observes. "Patent-holders
| are starting to delve into previously
| untouched economic sectors, suing small
| retailers and even photographers."
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http://www.law.com/jsp/tal/digestTAL.jsp?id=1202441718346
Report Shows Patent Trolls Are Thriving
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/01/1442236/Report-Shows-Patent-Trolls-Are-Thriving
Recent:
Patent Litigation Weekly: Shutter Closing on Massive Photo-Sharing Patent Suit
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| McKool's promotional material doesnât
| emphasize its work for FotoMedia, a patent-
| holding company whose only apparent business
| is filing infringement lawsuits. As part of
| its litigation campaign, FotoMedia has been
| demanding royalty payments from more than 60
| companies with photo-sharing websites. The
| McKool lawyer in charge of the FotoMedia
| cases was not available for interviews on
| Friday, and FotoMedia has not responded to
| TPA interview requests in the past.
| FotoMedia is also represented by Ward &
| Olivo, a firm out of New York that
| frequently represents patent-holding
| companies.
|
| [...]
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| FotoMedia is a patent-holding company that
| claims just about every photo-sharing
| website you can imagine infringes its three
| patents. Its lawsuits, covered by TPA last
| May and June, are notable not just for the
| audacity of the claims they make, but also
| because they target dozens of small- and
| medium-sized software companies that provide
| various types of photo-sharing services over
| the Internet.
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http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2010/01/fotomedia-patent-litigation-update.html
LCA 2010: Keeping patent trolls at bay
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| Free software is likely to come under
| increasing attack from patent holders in
| the years ahead and therefore developers
| themselves need to understand the basics of
| patents, free software luminary Andrew
| Tridgell said today.
|
| Delivering a talk titled "Patent defense
| for FOSS developers" at the 11th Australian
| national Linux conference in Wellington,
| Tridgell, who is best known for creating
| Samba and rsync, provided a walkthrough of
| some basics which needed to be learnt by
| all developers.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30653&Itemid=1090
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