Patent trolls now behind most patent infringement lawsuits
Patent trolls are for the first time behind the majority of patent infringement lawsuits filed in the United States, according to a study conducted by a patent law professor in California.
About 62 percent of all patent lawsuits filed this year up to December 1 were brought by patent assertion entities (PAEs), which are created to extract licensing fees from other companies rather than make products based on the patents, according to Colleen Chien, a law professor at Santa Clara University.
That’s a dramatic increase over last year, when 45 percent of patent lawsuits were filed by trolls….
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