Re:Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll
by 542458 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:21PM
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What you're (more or less) describing is a combination of defensive patent infringement insurance and a patent pool. Both are things that exist, but patent infringement insurance is crazy expensive, and patent pools are hard for small companies to enter into.
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Re:Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll
by jogjayr on Thursday May 11, 2017 @09:50PM
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> patent pools are hard for small companies to enter into.
Per my understanding, patent pools also don't offer any protection against non-practicing entities, correct? Since patent trolls don't use any patents themselves, a defendant in a patent suit can't assert any of the pool's patents against the troll in a countersuit.