Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay
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Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay
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#2The SHIELD Act is a great step, but I wonder how this will fare against the patent troll practice of setting up separate legal entities specifically for litigating individual patents? If they lose, they declare bankruptcy and move on to the next shell corporation.
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#3Call 'em out and take action. Well done.
Now if Congress can tighten patent regs and eliminate the ability to troll altogether.
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#4So what exactly can we do to make them pay?
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#5I was curious where Rackspace stands with their own portfolio, and it seems they have actually avoided patents, which surprised me somewhat for a large, public company:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=pts&hl=en&q=inassi...
The tone of the article -- specifically focusing on patent trolls being problematic, but less focus on the other systemic problems with the patent system -- made me wonder if they were just going after the cases that annoy them.
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#6So what exactly can we do to make them pay?
> This bill would require plaintiffs to pay defendants’ legal costs if the suit is unsuccessful. Under current law, the patent trolls don’t have any meaningful risk in bringing litigation. The defendants, on the other hand, are subjected to enormous legal expenses and discovery costs. The SHIELD Act is designed to level the playing field and take away the trolls’ unfair advantage. We encourage all of our customers, partners, open source collaborators and friends to support Reps. DeFazio and Chaffetz in their effort to discourage these abusive patent troll lawsuits.
Contact your elected officials and make them understand why it's critical they support SHIELD.
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#7I wonder if Microsoft or Apple will oppose this bill. They haven't won all their patent lawsuits.
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#8It seems like PersonalWeb is trying to develop software...
Interesting that their CEO was involved early on in P2P.
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#9So what exactly can we do to make them pay?
Sign up with rackspace and github. Use their services. Pay them money.
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#10It seems like PersonalWeb is trying to develop software... http://www.personalweb.com/ Interesting that their CEO was involved early on in P2P.
Does it, though?
First red flag for me is that they are based in "East Texas": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_fo...
On their "How we do it" page, they mention some Natural Language Processing software that they're developing, but primarily highlight their "valuable" patent portfolio.