Perspective
Aug. 13, 2009
Losing Con-Troll
America needs a court system that specializes in patent disputes in order to quell the threat of patent trolls, write Mark Krietzman and Peter Gluck.
Just when American businesses began to h+ope that the worst was over, the Federal Circuit issued its opinion in Autogenomics Inc. v. Oxford Gene Technology, Ltd., 566 F.3d 1012 (Fed. Cir. 2009). When one applies the reasoning in Autogenomics to the enforcement (aka "shakedown") practices of patent trolls, it appears that the court has opened the door for district courts to take a giant step backward in te...
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