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Inhibiting Patent Trolling: A New Approach For Applying Rule 11 (Working Paper), Young Jeon, Eric J. Rogers

Youngsik Jeon

The existing Rule 11 of the FRCP can be immediately harnessed to help solve the patent troll, nuisance-lawsuit problem. Currently there is the perception that too many litigious entities, commonly referred to as “patent trolls,” are creating too much dead-weight economic waste in society. The popular view is that there has been an alarming rise in the number of patent trolls that make no products but try to monetize patents by filing dubious patent infringement lawsuits merely to extract money from commercially productive companies that actually make products and use technologies for society’s benefit. Defining “patent troll” is probably too …