Sentences with phrase «acquiring old patents»

As we've noted before, Google's non-aggression pact is no magic bullet to stop nuisance cloud - based lawsuits, in part because it provides little deterrent to so - called trolls — shell companies, often backed by lawyers and private investors, that do nothing but acquire old patents in order to file lawsuits.

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There's no suggestion here that, by obtaining a patent for the composition, the patentee of the composition would acquire any right to use the old ingredient which it hadn't otherwise acquired in the ordinary way from the patentee of the ingredient.

Patents became a major problem in the early 2000s with the rise of so - called patent trolls, which are companies that don't make tech products or provide services, but instead acquire old intellectual property and threaten expensive lawsuits against those that do.