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Legislative Responses To Patent Assertion Entities, David O. Taylor
Legislative Responses To Patent Assertion Entities, David O. Taylor
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While the existence of patent assertion entities is not new, in recent years they have proliferated, spawning debate concerning their impact on the patent system and, more broadly, on technological innovation. Despite the fear that they instill in their targets — or perhaps because of it — patent assertion entities arguably serve a beneficial purpose in the patent system. Theoretically they should be able to help individual inventors and small businesses, in particular, obtain a return on their investment in research and development. To the extent patent assertion entities assert patent claims that should be held invalid, not infringed, or …