Sentences with phrase «abusive litigation»

This week's decision is an important win for victims of abusive litigation.

We're hoping that, in addition to dealing with abusive litigation tactics, the key issue of patent quality is addressed.

Rather, it is targeted at the worst actors and will cut back on rampant abusive litigation from patent trolls.

While the goal of proposed legislation is to address abusive litigation, in the aggregate the bill has the potential to diminish the value of a patent by making it harder to enforce.

That's why we have abusive litigation laws that allow victims of frivolous claims to sue for damages.

There are new, powerful grounds to prevent abusive litigation through attrition.

The deceptive and abusive litigation tactics used by the tobacco companies failed in the third wave of tobacco litigation.

The Commission's report describes «loser pays» as «one of the basic procedural guarantees for both parties of collective actions,» and warned against potential «incentive [s] for abusive litigation» inherent in unregulated contingency fees.

It's important that the Patent Office provides such resources to empower businesses and curb abusive litigation practices.

The report notes that this is a fundamental safeguard against abusive litigation in which the losing party to a lawsuit pays the other side's expenses.

The Recommendation included a number of proposed safeguards designed to deter abusive litigation by keeping the risks and rewards of collective redress in check.

The Innovation Act deals with the problem of abusive litigation by patent trolls.

Mark Steyn (the other defendant), however, went a different route, firing his counsel, answering the complaint, and filing a counterclaim, alleging that the claim against him was «abusive litigation designed to chill freedom of speech and to stifle legitimate criticism of Plaintiff's work.»

A welcome decision of the English High Court that potentially abusive litigation tactics can not prevail could prove short - lived as a result of Brexit uncertainty.

$ 58,000 lien waived entirely by major health insurer where lien shown to be in violation of Georgia law and state law was not pre-empted by ERISA, health insurer threatened with abusive litigation lawsuit then dismissed claim altogether;

Business leaders on Tuesday urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to include fee shifting in legislation it is debating to combat abusive litigation from patent trolls.

A ruling that made it even easier to sue customers (by allowing suits against someone who performs just some steps of a patent) would encourage patent trolls to launch more abusive litigation campaigns.

It also gives the agency a tool to fight back against patent trolls, or entities that often use low - quality patents to fuel abusive litigation and win extortionate settlements from productive American companies.

We are also announcing an expansion of the PTO Edison Scholars Program, which will bring distinguished academic experts to the PTO to develop — and make available to the public — more robust data and research on the issues bearing on abusive litigation.

A strong fee - shifting provision that evens the playing field between trolls and their targets is essential for reducing the incentives for abusive litigation, and we look forward to working with the Administration and Members of Congress to achieve that goal.

EFF agrees with Intellectual Ventures on one thing: the absurd patents and abusive litigation conduct of trolls like RCDI should be at the center of any debate about patent reform.

And further, this attack is coupled with the transparent threat that the National Review intends to undertake burdensome and abusive litigation tactics should Dr. Mann have the temerity to attempt to defend himself in court.

Patent trolls often set up shell companies to hide their activities and enable their abusive litigation and extraction of settlements.

Steyn, now again represented by counsel, argued in response that his counterclaim did not assert claims for malicious prosecution or abuse of process, but instead asserted claims for: (a) an implied, private cause of action under the DC anti-SLAPP statute; (b) a constitutional tort; and (c) abusive litigation, all of which, he argued, survived the anti-SLAPP motion.

Abusive litigation is evil and don't even ask what I think of PETA.

In that decision, the judge found that any lawyer who acts on behalf of a client who engages in frivolous, vexatious or abusive litigation is acting contrary to their obligations to the courts and other litigants, as well as their own client.

First I think the real issue is abusive litigation, rather than frivolous cases, by which I mean cases that may have some merit but which are freighted with abusive discovery and satellite litigation in an effort to make them more valuable then the merits would support.

«We are also encouraged by the White House's support of the bill and will continue to work with the Senate to ensure the passage of strong and effective legislation that deters the abusive litigation practices of patent trolls and promotes innovation and economic growth.»

This report highlights what we already know — that if left unchecked, patent trolls will continue to employ their abusive litigation tactics to undermine the patent system, stifle innovation, slow the economy, and do irreparable harm to small businesses across the country.

We will continue to work with the Senate to pass a package of reforms that provide REALTORS ® relief from abusive litigation.

If Mr. Iancu wants to see the positive effects of IPR, he doesn't need to look any further than the small business survivors of abusive litigation.