Sentences with phrase «threatened by patent trolls»

Often, companies that get sued or threatened by patent trolls will end up paying a licensing fee, even though they don't think the patents are legitimate.

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If a business does come under attack by a troll threatening a lawsuit over potential patent infringement, the business owner needs a less costly way to fight back.

There's a derogatory term in Silicon Valley for companies that amass huge troves of patents and make money by threatening lawsuits: «patent trolls.»

This played into the hands of patent trolls, who were able to claim the mantle of «reform» for themselves by supporting the weaker legislation, which offered only cosmetic changes and none of the measures (like fee - shifting or discovery reform) that would threaten their operations.

On the other side, trial lawyers and the patent trolls are expected to push to water it down, in part by warning that it will threaten «innovation.»

Negotiations over how to appropriately address patent trolls — companies that buy up patents and then leach cash from inventors by threatening infringement lawsuits — have repeatedly bedeviled Senate staffers working on the issue.

Obama's words came after the House had passed a bill aimed at slaying patent trolls — companies that buy up patents and then leach cash from inventors by threatening infringement lawsuits.

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We've long been concerned about «patent trolls» — companies that don't produce anything themselves but buy patents, then make their money by threatening and even suing companies that are producing products.

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.

San Francisco, California — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won a court ruling today affirming that an infamous podcasting patent used by a patent troll to threaten podcasters big and small was properly held invalid by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Upatent used by a patent troll to threaten podcasters big and small was properly held invalid by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Upatent troll to threaten podcasters big and small was properly held invalid by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (UPatent and Trademark Office (USPTO).