Sentences with phrase «filed by patent trolls»

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

To illustrate how much troll litigation has surged, there were more cases filed by patent trolls in one month in January 2015 than in the entire year of 2004.

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There are about 13,000 intellectual property cases a year filed in federal court (many by patent trolls and pornography companies).

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.

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.

Defended a Korean automobile company in a patent infringement case filed by a non-practicing entity («patent troll»).

The trolls (who prefer to call themselves «non-practicing entities,» or NPEs) soon grew rich by exploiting an economic asymmetry in federal law that makes it relatively cheap and risk - free to file a patent lawsuit but ruinously expensive to defend one.

Washington, D.C. — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the Supreme Court to overturn a court decision that tilted the scales in favor of patent trolls by making it easier for them to venue shop and file lawsuits in certain courts.

Approximately one in three patent suits were filed in that remote, troll - friendly district, and these suits were almost all filed by companies with no business other than suing for patent infringement.

A non-practicing Entity or Patent Troll by the name of Cellular Communications Equipment has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft using a 2004 Nokia Corporation pPatent Troll by the name of Cellular Communications Equipment has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft using a 2004 Nokia Corporation ppatent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft using a 2004 Nokia Corporation patentpatent.

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.

He's now being called a «Patent Troll» by some for filing over a billion dollars worth of Blockchain patents.