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In Defense Of Patent Trolls: Patent Assertion Entities As Commercial Litigation Funders, Jean Xiao
In Defense Of Patent Trolls: Patent Assertion Entities As Commercial Litigation Funders, Jean Xiao
Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property
This paper is the first to defend and commend the role of patent trolls in litigation. It argues that trolls either are not the sole source of patent litigation ills or are not responsible for these ills in the first place. Next, it demonstrates that trolls provide the same litigation-related benefits as commercial litigation funders, which also finance patent lawsuits. Troll commentators have ignored these benefits, for which funders are praised, in the evaluation of trolls. Finally, this paper explains that eliminating trolls will not only close off a source of these benefits but also worsen problems by shifting trolling …