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It's important to remind members that they have options for responding to a patent troll demand letter.

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EFF, alongside a number of public interest groups, is creating Trolling Effects, an online database of patent troll demand letters.

The bill is not perfect, though, and has at least one glaring error: it does not address the serious harm that comes from patent troll demand letters.

Unfortunately for ArrivalStar, TheRealReal had lawyers — unlike many small businesses targeted by patent troll demand letters.

Not exact matches

While the troll suing Pied Piper was located in California, it would have been more realistic to have received the demand letter from a shell company in Eastern Texas.

To make its case for implementing new IEEE rules on how to pay for standards patents, the letter points to the recent example of a patent troll that has been brandishing a standards essential patent to demand thousands of dollars per Wi - Fi chip from hotels and small businesses.

Increasingly, we see patent trolls set up third - parties to pursue demand letters and infringement claims when parties will not bend to their demands.

Patent trolls send vague and deceptive letters alleging patent infringement to demand unjustified payments from innocent individuals and 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.

Another troll, Innovatio IP Ventures, sent over 10,000 letters to businesses like cafes and hotels demanding payment for providing Wi - Fi.

Getting a patent demand letter from a troll can be a scary experience.

No industry is immune from the reach of patent trolls, and hotels, real estate offices, coffee shops, tech startups, employment agencies, and many more have found themselves on the receiving end of a demand letter from a patent troll.

In one case, a secretive troll called MPHJ sent over 16,000 letters to small businesses demanding payment for using basic «scan to email» technology.

Trolling Effects will help shed light on the extent of troll activity, the nature of demand letters, what actions can be taken, and what reform is needed.

Vermont's lawsuit, which demands the troll pay $ 10,000 for each letter it sent out, is based on consumer protection laws that forbid deceitful communications.

There must be transparency around patent demand letters that trolls send out.

The settlement itself requires that the scanner troll actually investigate before it sends threatening demand letters and prohibits it from bothering businesses it has already contacted.

The equation — and the troll's motivation — will change very quickly if there is a risk that the «answer» to a demand letter might come from the AG's office.

This law requires patent demand letters to be specific about the claim being violated, to be particular about how the target is violating the patent, and to give targets a reasonable estimate of the damage costs coupled with a reasonable time to respond (patent trolls usually have broad demands, are vague about violations, and pressure their targets to respond hastily with their purses open).

The legislation is focused on curtailing certain types of demand letters and the abusive practice that many patent trolls engage in, especially with small to medium sized businesses that may not have the financial means and wherewithal to challenge bald and possibly baseless claims of patent infringement.

It would also create a publicly available demand letter database (something we're obviously in favor of — check out Trolling Effects).

First, it must be made widely known to the business community that this state court cause of action is available, and especially that the business community should report all suspect demand letters from patent trolls to the AG's office.

Trolling Effects is a database of demand letters, open to the public.

Trolling Effects is an important tool to fight the dangerous barrage of patent demand letters, but we need a more long - term fix to the problem.

Comprehensive patent reform legislation should require patent trolls to include enough information in demand letters to give its targets necessary information they need.

If you have received a patent demand letter, submit it to Trolling Effects.

Each new demand letter is crucial to Trolling Effects, even if a nearly identical letter has already been posted.

This year, EFF and several tech policy organizations launched Trolling Effects, a database of demand letters that patent trolls use as perhaps their strongest — and stealthiest — weapon.

Washington, DC - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) attorney Julie Samuels will testify on how patent trolls harm start - ups and consumers through deceptive demand letters and legal threats at a US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on Thursday, Nov. 7.

Mark Chandler of Cisco talked about the massive scam perpetrated by troll Innovatio IP Ventures, which sent thousands of misleading demand letters to cafes, hotels, and other end - users of Wi - Fi technology.

With patent trolls blanketing the nation with deceptive and misleading letters — many of which we've documented through our Trolling Effects project — Congress should make sure to include demand letter reform in its legislation.

This troll hides behind an alphabet soup of shell companies and sends demand letters to small businesses all over the country demanding $ 1,000 per employee for the privilege of using scanners and email.

At that time, a patent troll named Personal Audio LLC had sued three podcasters and sent demand letters to a number of others.

At its heart, the complaint alleges that the scanner troll is sending these demand letters in bad faith.

And another troll has blanketed the nation with letters demanding that companies pay $ 1,000 per employee for using standard office technology like scanners and email.

EFF, through sites like Trolling Effects and those who reach out to us, is in an important position to notice when a bunch of startups and end users are receiving particularly egregious demand letters or suits.

Just as these developers were finding new audiences, the patent trolls decided they wanted a piece of the action and started sending cease - and - desist letters demanding license fees, and in some instances even suing.

A handful of these come from the various demand letters that are submitted to Trolling Effects.

Ranieri outlined the discouraging process that allows demand letters to thrive: the Patent Office issues vague and overbroad patents; patent trolls acquire these bad patents and send unfair and deceptive demand letters; and legitimate businesses, without the resources to fight back, end up paying unjustifiable licensing fees.

Last year, when we launched our demand letter database Trolling Effects, we wrote:

Patent trolls place a widespread burden on innovation, often sending identical demand letters to dozens of small companies at once.

yro.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader writes Michael Geist reports that according to documents recently obtained under the Access to Information Act, the Canadian government quietly proposed a series of reforms to combat patent trolls including new prohibitions on demand letters, powers to the courts to stop paten...

What do you do if you receive a letter from a non-practicing entity, or «patent troll,» demanding payment of a licensing fee?