«Patent trolls like Personal Audio know this and use the threat of
ruinous litigation costs as a weapon.
The Task Force has published an «Effective Practices Protocol» to dispel some of the common business myths about mediation and to promote the strengths of mediation as a means for resolving patent disputes and saving companies from
ruinous litigation.
Not exact matches
It does nothing about the real barrier, the one that dwarfs Everest, the
ruinous time and cost of
litigation (the RTCL»).
I support all five of those initiatives, by the way, but they do nothing about the real problem — the
Ruinous Time and Cost of
Litigation.
The single most important thing we should be doing is bringing down the
ruinous time and cost of
litigation — the access to justice barrier that dwarfs all others combined.
The exception is that precious little has been done about the one barrier to access to justice that dwarfs all other real and imagined barriers combined, namely, the
ruinous time and cost of
litigation.
What is not affordable is the
Ruinous Time and Cost of
Litigation.
When are we going to stop wasting time and oxygen on ABS and knuckle down and deal with the access to justice problem that dwarfs all other real and trumped up A2J issues combined — the
ruinous time and cost of
litigation?
I have made numerous suggestions on how to reduce the
ruinous cost of
litigation.
The real problems, as opposed to the fake problems, can be addressed only by tackling the
ruinous cost of
litigation and that can best be addressed by shortening the time to resolve litigious disputes.
If it were not for the
ruinous cost of
litigation, the conversation about access to justice would not even be happening.
Further, they fail to realize that (1) every single benefit they extol can be achieved without selling our ownership, and (2) ABS does nothing about the one gigantic barrier to access to justice - the
ruinous time and cost of
litigation.
It has not set up a committee truly dedicated to making recommendations to ameliorate the real problem — the
ruinous time and cost of
litigation.
In particular, patent trolls continue their deplorable business model of buying up patents and using the threat of
litigation to force companies — frequently startups — to pay up or face
ruinous legal fees.