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Non-Practicing Patent Holders Winning Bigger And Bigger Awards -- And Why They Like East Texas
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| It's no secret that many non-practicing
| entities (i.e., patent holders who do not
| actually build anything, but just try to
| license their patent or sue others for
| infringement) tend to prefer jury trials.
| It's well-known that juries, who have been
| fed years of misleading (and sometimes
| blatantly false) stories of the mythic
| "sole inventor," are extremely sympathetic
| to stories of big bad companies "stealing"
| ideas from lone inventors.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100127/2100057953.shtml
Boston Scientific to Pay J&J $1.73B to Settle Stent Patent Disputes
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| Boston Scientific Corp. said Monday it
| would pay Johnson & Johnson a hefty $1.73
| billion to end more disputes in long-
| running legal battles over patents for
| heart stents.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107204575039430685168478.html?mod=WSJ_Small%20Business_IndustryNews
How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation
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| Patent defenders often claim that patents
| are necessary because top venture
| capitalists would never invest without
| patents. And yet, we keep pointing to
| examples of some of the best venture
| capitalists in the business who are quite
| skeptical of patents.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100203/0303448024.shtml
Do Patents Slow Down Innovation?
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| Iâm still obsessed with my mission to
| âabolish software patentsâ especially after
| receiving yet another email from a new
| startup that claims to be a âPatent
| Insurance Company.â A number of these have
| popped up recently in the past few years,
| including several that are funded by VCs.
| Their pitch is that you pay them an annual
| fee, license any patents you have to them,
| and they will âprotect youâ against any
| patent litigation. Whenever I hear this
| pitch, all I can think about is Al Capone
| walking the streets of Chicago going door
| to door offering âprotectionâ to all of the
| local businessmen if they will pay his vig
| every week.
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http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2010/01/do-
patents-slow-down-innovation.html
Recent:
Profit from patents: sue, don't produce
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| No surprises: the trolls make more from
| suing than performing entities
| (manufacturers) do from suing (shorter time
| to trial, higher success rate, higher
| damages).
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000002499
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