Sentences with phrase «caused by patent trolls»

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.

The inquiry Ramirez intends to launch could uncover data and evidence to be used by Congress, federal courts, the Department of Justice and other agencies to combat the harm caused by patent trolls.

Not exact matches

Harming society In a study released on 19 September, Bessen and his co-authors estimate that patent lawsuits filed by trolls, also known as «non-practicing entities» (NPEs), caused defendants to lose more than US$ 500 billion in value from 1990 to 2010.

To address many of the harms caused by overbroad patents and malicious patent trolls, the broken patent system must be fixed on the legislative level.

We also admire the company's acknowledgement that licenses and pledges alone can't fix a patent system that's all too easily exploited by patent trolls, nor can it stop the real root cause of the problems in the patent system, the flood of stupid patents.

And the harm caused by software patents goes beyond the problems with trolls.

Many in the tech industry believe that 2011's reforms did not adequately address the issue of «patent trolls» and that additional legislation is necessary to reduce the costs of litigation caused by «non-practicing patent entities (NPEs).»