Sentences with phrase «by patent trolls against»

Google has been actively looking to strengthen its IP portfolio in wake of lawsuits filed by patent trolls against Android device makers.

Instead of investing in new jobs and services, businesses must fight frivolous claims and overly broad lawsuits made by patent trolls against a range of technologies and commonplace ideas.

Not exact matches

The Internet giants warned against patent trolling, which refers to instances when companies that had no involvement in the creation or invention of a patent demand licences or other payments from legitimate companies by relying on dubious patents.

According to an article by Jeff Roberts for paidContent.org, Acacia Research Group, which some sources have called a «patent troll» (the term for a group or person who buys up patents with the intention of wielding them against others in court), assigned the patent for the sponsored activity screensaver to Network Presentation Solutions at the end of last year.

Up until February, no one knew that Rick Frenkel, an in - house lawyer at Cisco by day, was also the anonymous blogger behind the controversial Patent Troll Tracker site, where he regularly outed companies (and their lawyers) that he considered to be patent trolls — a pejorative term for one who enforces his or her patents against alleged infringers in a manner considered unduly aggressive or opportunPatent Troll Tracker site, where he regularly outed companies (and their lawyers) that he considered to be patent trolls — a pejorative term for one who enforces his or her patents against alleged infringers in a manner considered unduly aggressive or opportunpatent trolls — a pejorative term for one who enforces his or her patents against alleged infringers in a manner considered unduly aggressive or opportunistic.

A company suing on similar U.S. patents in the United States, ArrivalStar, has been called a troll by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for its patent infringement actions against municipal transit systems and organized a search for prior art against its patents.

Still, patent trolls remain a major thorn in the side for tech companies, as evidenced by a $ 625 million verdict a Texas jury awarded against Apple last month.

We look forward to working with Chairman Goodlatte, Representative DeFazio and their colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee on a bipartisan basis in order to continue to ensure that American businesses are protected against aggressive, anticompetitive attacks by patent trolls in the future.

It's also a victory for trolls, which are shell companies backed by private equity firms and lawyers that use patents (often obtained from Microsoft and others under a «privateering» arrangement) to wage ruinous legal war against everyone from Martha Stewart to individual app developers.

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Ramirez's remarks suggest the federal government is finally getting serious about the harm caused by patent trolls — shell firms that don't make anything but amass old patents to threaten lawsuits against productive companies.

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.