PatentHackers – A new platform to help companies kill patent trolls

Re:PatentHackers – A new platform to help companies kill pat... by josaka on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @09:04AM (#7845289)

Even with dead on prior art, you're still out of pocket $500k to $1.5 million in legal fees before you can kill the patent in court, which is why cost-of-litigation settlements are common. Newer procedures (begun last year) are killing patents at the USPTO with a high success rate for in the range of $100k to 300k.

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Re:PatentHackers – A new platform to help companies kill pat... by jimiwen on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @10:58AM (#7845893)

hi josaka, yeh i think the new procedures (IPR, CBM) relatively increases prior art research emphasis. Do you think high success rate has a pre-selected bias? i.e. stakeholders only apply higher confidence oppositions to the USPTO?

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