Perspective
Jul. 1, 2009
Avoiding the Willfulness Trap
With the rising trend of monetizing IP through assertions of patent rights, companies must choose their responses wisely, writes Michael Warner Kallus.
If you manage a high-tech company, you are familiar with this situation: One of your engineers notes that a competitor's recently issued patent may cover current product development, but you have not heard a peep from the competitor itself. This sounds harmless enough, but four years from now you could easily find yourself on the witness stand trying to explain to a jury that has already found you infringing why, in hindsight,...
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