Sentences with phrase «quality patents flooding»

Not exact matches

Many startups rely on patents to protect their intellectual property, but allowing low - quality patents to flood the system not only enables trolls to file abusive lawsuits, it also delegitimizes the entire patent system.

In recent years, patents have become a bugbear in Silicon Valley as a flood of low - quality patents has triggered a litigation arms race and given rise to a scourge of «trolls» — shell companies that don't make anything but use the threat of lawsuits to extort licenses from companies that do.

His solution, however, was to lower standards, allowing a flood of low - quality patents to issue.

Finally, today's discussion draft focuses on litigation system, rather than targeting the root cause of the problem: the flood of low - quality, over-broad software patents.

Ultimately, current reform efforts only target litigation abuse and ignore the more fundamental problem of the flood of low - quality software patents.

The flood of these low - quality software patents is at the root of this problem, and we can not fully address the scourge of patent trolls without addressing those patents.

Under the law, patent recipients get the right to exclude others from using the technology for 20 years — unfortunately, the system turned toxic when the Patent Office began issuing a flood of low - quality patents and lawyers and others began buying them up and suing everyone in patent recipients get the right to exclude others from using the technology for 20 years — unfortunately, the system turned toxic when the Patent Office began issuing a flood of low - quality patents and lawyers and others began buying them up and suing everyone in Patent Office began issuing a flood of low - quality patents and lawyers and others began buying them up and suing everyone in sight.