Sentences with phrase «costs for patent owners»

This will indirectly increase costs for patent owners, essentially weakening patent rights.

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A patent owner can elect to pursue a patent infringer's profits rather than proving her own damages, and the losing party in a dispute is theoretically liable for the winner's costs (in contrast to the «American Rule» requiring each party to bear its own costs).

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High switching costs may create market power for the owners of patents that cover the standard due to the inability of firms using the standard to easily substitute other technologies to avoid high royalties.

That increases costs on defendants (who are usually the ones with lots of documents, especially when the patent owner is a non-practicing entity) and helps patent owners push for a settlement.

Require more patent owners to pay for defendants» legal fees and costs when a lawsuit alleging infringement is objectively baseless and frivolous.