Sentences with phrase «trolls extort money»

Not exact matches

Here, the court found that while the plaintiff probably wasn't a «non-producing troll» (someone who enforces copyrights just to extort money from people who are too embarrassed to fight a Federal porn suit), the court still found that a damage award that was three times the statutory floor was excessive.

They increase costs, prolong litigation, and help patent trolls to use those consequences to extort undeserved money from defendants.

Serial Troll Tries To Extort Money From Mail - Order Business with Frivolous Infringement Claims

Earlier this week, the Vermont legislature passed H. 299, which attempts to place barriers in front of entities looking to extort money from businesses based on bad faith assertions of patent infringement (e.g., some patent trolls).

Groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Consumer Electronics Association, and the Application Developers Alliance say that patent trolls, such as Lodsys, harm innovation by litigating in order to extort money from developers and companies based on generic software patents that they don't even use for practical purposes.

So - called patent trolls stifle innovation and harm our economy by making dubious claims of patent infringement and using the threat of expensive litigation to extort money from small businesses and nonprofits.