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Realtors ® are targeted by patent trolls at alarming rates for simply using common business technologies like dropdown menus and search functions on websites or scan - to - email technologies found in every office scanner.

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A researcher at MIT found, for example, that medical imaging businesses sued by a patent troll reduced revenues and innovations relative to comparable companies that were not sued.

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.

In 2010, a patent troll called IA Labs filed suit with Nintendo claiming that the Wii Fit Balance Board was in violation of at least two patents held by the company.

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.

Justice Breyer suggested that, although a Phillips - based standard might be appropriate if Congress intended to create a «little court proceeding,» the BRI standard might be appropriate if Congress intended IPR proceedings as a mechanism to allow the public to force a second look at many patents controlled by patent trolls that never should have been allowed.

Now, lawmakers are at it again, vowing to cut down the patent trolls who have made a mockery of a system that is supposed to promote innovation by instead turning it into a tool for economic extortion.

To date, we have borne the economic costs and burdens of a patent system increasingly held hostage by trolls that do not seek to build up the American economy, but rather tear it down, one demand letter and exorbitant licensing fee at a time.

Obama's words came after the House had passed a bill aimed at slaying patent trolls — companies that buy up patents and then leach cash from inventors by threatening infringement lawsuits.

This cost - benefit will be further impacted by the fact that the validity of a troll's patent is at risk in every case that is fully litigated.

Thus, if there were a scheme by which smaller companies could thwart these initial advances by patent trolls, trolls may be less effective overall at extracting licensing fees.

Unfortunately, avid technology users are unknowingly putting themselves at risk for litigation brought on by so - called patent trolls who buy questionable and overly vague patents, often by the hundreds or thousands, and use them to demand that operating companies pay a licensing fee or face litigation.

Many of the changes in the bill are aimed at making it more difficult for patent trolls to sue or extort companies, according to a summary released by the co-sponsors.