By William J. Watkins,William F. Shughart II
ISBN-10: 1598131702
ISBN-13: 9781598131703
Stiflers of innovation, patent trolls use overbroad patents in response to dated know-how to threaten litigation and convey infringement matches opposed to inventors. Trolls, often referred to as nonpracticing entities (NPEs), regularly don't produce product or service yet are within the enterprise of litigation. They lie in look ahead to somebody to create a method or product that has a few courting to the patent held by means of the troll, after which they pounce with threats and complaints. the price to the financial system is striking. In Patent Trolls: Predatory Litigation and the Smothering of Innovation, William J. Watkins, Jr., calls consciousness to this challenge and the demanding situations it poses to protecting a strong price of technological development. After describing contemporary developments and efforts to “tame the trolls,” Watkins makes a speciality of flooring 0 in patent litigation—the japanese District of Texas, the place a mix of things makes this the lawsuit venue of selection for strategically minded patent trolls. He additionally examines a extra primary challenge: an superseded patent process that's thoroughly ailing fitted to the fashionable economic system. eventually, he examines proposals for reforming the U.S. patent procedure, which used to be created to spur innovation yet this day is having the other impression. If criminal reformers heed the analyses and recommendations awarded during this e-book, the customers for crafting a criminal setting that promotes innovation are favorable.
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