The beginning of the end of Patent Trolls?
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Posted on 01/03/2017 4:28:32 PM PST by Swordmaker
For years, patent trolls have been the best evidence that pure evil exists. And like most evil entities, they are almost impossible to stop. Even a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court decision that was highly critical of patent trolls has done little to slow their slimy, reptilian-like existence. But a federal judge on Dec. 19 crafted a novel tactic to curb patent trolls when she slapped a half-million-dollar bill on the lawyers and said that they were personally responsible for paying it, not their client. This could truly be a game-changer.
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
I think what happened was a non meritorious pleading containing no justifiable issue— It was not what is implied. Otherwise it will be quickly dispatched by a real judge.
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The legal profession needs to be better regulated. Frivolous law suits destroy good people. Hooray for this Judge!
Patent Trolls add nothing to society.
Neither do pedophiles and Ivy League law professors.
A better idea is to “kill all the lawyers” .
Oh man, if this could destroy those Lemelson creeps, that would be great. Like the Clintons, they hide behind the facade of a foundation but they are patent trolls and shakedown artists of the first order.
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