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Re:A Small Town Judge Who Sees a Quarter of the Nation’s Pat... by chris_wot on Thursday May 05, 2016 @11:50PM (#11641563)
Which would tend to indicate that the defendants believe that they will lose badly, no?

Thus the win and loss rates become interesting, because then it can be seen if the number of judgements against the defendants deviate significantly from the national mean.

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Re:A Small Town Judge Who Sees a Quarter of the Nation’s Pat... by WildUtah on Friday May 06, 2016 @05:28AM (#11642692)
Actually the multi-million dollar cost of litigating in EDTX for defendants (it's cheap for plaintiffs) is usually more than the plaintiffs are asking for to settle. So defendants that expect to win big still have to settle and pay or they'll ruin their business.

Most EDTX patent defendants have under $10MM in revenue. Trolls target small companies in these suits more often than large ones.

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