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Intellectual Property

May 16, 2014

No easy solution for patent troll issue

If you think that the current patent reform debate is binary, think again. By Dion M. Bregman, Corey Houmand and Jacob Minne


By Dion M. Bregman, Corey Houmand, and Jacob Minne


If you think that the current patent reform debate is binary, think again. It's not quite as simple as grotesque "patent trolls" hijacking the court system to extort money from clean-cut captains of industry. There is a complex, and not always clear, relationship between the primary stakeholders in the patent reform debate and their competing interests.


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