Sentences with phrase «time by patent trolls»

You know, Apple gets sued all the time by patent trolls: people who claim ownership of an idea but don't actually do anything to develop product that uses the idea.

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In recent months, the strategy of big players in the patent troll space has become clear: head off reform by drawing a distinction between themselves and the small - time shakedown players who have been targeting mom - and - pop coffee shops.

The New York Times and its lawyers would not disclose how much the company is spending on the Helferich case, but this 2013 chart produced by the American Intellectual Property Law Association shows how much these lawsuits typically cost to defend (NPE stands for non-practicing entity, a synonym for patent troll):

Their exploitation of patents as a tool for extortion is undermining America's technological progress; patent trolls are collecting taxes on innovation by extracting billions of dollars in dubious licensing fees, and wasting the time and management resources of creative businesses.»

To date, we have borne the economic costs and burdens of a patent system increasingly held hostage by trolls that do not seek to build up the American economy, but rather tear it down, one demand letter and exorbitant licensing fee at a time.

It's time to make life harder for the patent trolls by passing legislation like the SHIELD Act, which would require a troll who brings a losing suit to cover the fees and costs of a party like Austin.

By 2012, for the first time ever, more than half of all patent suits were brought by trollBy 2012, for the first time ever, more than half of all patent suits were brought by trollby trolls.

This case represents the first time the term «patent troll» was used by a Supreme Court justice in a decision (Justice Antonin Scalia in the case of Commil USA LLC v. Cisco).