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Re:Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay by tedivm on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @07:04PM (#4541019)
If they file bankruptcy they have to sell off their assets to raise money for their creditors- assets which include the patents themselves.
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Re:Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay by mnutt on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @07:33PM (#4541163)
True, but doesn't losing mean having the patent declared invalid anyway? Which renders it worthless whether or not loser pays.
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Re:Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay by tedivm on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @07:38PM (#4541174)
No, it's just one way they could lose. The other side can be found to be non-infringing, or it could be found that a very very specific clause of the patent is invalid as opposed to the whole thing.
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