This bill would make it so that patent
trolls pay the legal fees if a patent in a lawsuit is invalid or if there's no actual infringement.
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In other words, the possibility of increased filing requirements, or a greater threat of being made to
pay legal fees, could have pushed some big players in the patent
troll world to file cases sooner rather than later.
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.
Under the Act, if the patent
troll loses in court (because the patent is found to be invalid or there is no infringement), then it
pays the other side's costs and
legal fees.
One way to stop the
trolls, if they lose their claim they are forced to
pay for the
legal fees of Twitter.
Under this proposal, if the patent
troll loses in court (because the patent is found to be invalid or there is no infringement), then it
pays the other side's costs and
legal fees.
But this will be little consolation to Uber and Lyft users who will ultimately
pay for
troll - related
legal costs in the form of higher ride
fees.
The bill creates a system where if a
troll loses in court because the patent is found to be invalid or there is no infringement, then it
pays the other side's costs and
legal fees.