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Feb. 28, 2017

GCs adopt different strategies to fight patent lawsuits

General counsel say they believe a variety of strategies to combat patent assertion entities are contributing to the decline in new litigation filings.

By Paula Lehman-Ewing
Daily Journal Staff Writer

General counsel say they believe a variety of strategies to combat patent assertion entities are contributing to the decline in new litigation filings.

Last year marked the lowest number of new patent infringement lawsuits since 2011, according to data collected by Lex Machina.

The most popular approaches to what companies see as illegitimate, nuisance suits ...

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