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1 edit | Need loser pays system
We need penalties for people who bring these suits and lose other than just lawyer fees.
When it becomes a significant liability to lose one of these patent troll cases, they'll largely go away.
Force these patent trolls to pay not only lawyers fees to the defendants but also significant punitive damages in some sort of abuse of process counter award would mean the death of the patent troll. |
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Kearnstd
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| well with the list of companies this group is suing they better have the absolute best lawyers and lots of money to burn. especially going after the TV networks which are all owned by some rather large corps. ABC, Say hello to the disney legal team. NBC: prepair to meet General Electric, who im sure knows a few things about patent suits.
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PhoenixDown
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clubs:   | Your right... If they are going after these companies at once, they better have a ton of money because they will be going up against a combined legal team with more people than some small cities. |
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Sammer
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1 edit | reply to Dogfather
What we really need is a statute of limitations on bringing patent lawsuits against technology that has already been vastly commercialized. If these patents have any value whatsoever these suits should have been filed over a decade ago. |
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PolarBear
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| said by Sammer  :What we really need is a statute of limitations on bringing patent lawsuits against technology that has already been vastly commercialized. If these patents have any value whatsoever these suits should have been filed years ago. INDEED! That would solve most of the patent lawsuits in this country. Why was it Vonage was in business for over 5 years before Verizon and whoever-else decided to sue them? What, they didn't mind that their patent was being used for the first 5 years? Well then they shouldn't have minded if Vonage CONTINUED to use their patent.
I propose a statute of limitations of no more than 5 years for patent suits. If someone is using your shit for 5 years, obviously a) you don't care, and b) it isn't hurting you. You snooze, you lose. |
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lawrence171
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said by Dogfather :We need penalties for people who bring these suits and lose other than just lawyer fees. One of their nuts 
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Kearnstd
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said by PolarBear :said by Sammer :What we really need is a statute of limitations on bringing patent lawsuits against technology that has already been vastly commercialized. If these patents have any value whatsoever these suits should have been filed years ago. INDEED! That would solve most of the patent lawsuits in this country. Why was it Vonage was in business for over 5 years before Verizon and whoever-else decided to sue them? What, they didn't mind that their patent was being used for the first 5 years? Well then they shouldn't have minded if Vonage CONTINUED to use their patent. I propose a statute of limitations of no more than 5 years for patent suits. If someone is using your shit for 5 years, obviously a) you don't care, and b) it isn't hurting you. You snooze, you lose. because they sue for money, if you devlop something and patent it but dont really do much with it. i start using that and you know about it. now if you are smart you will hit me hard on day one. if you are greedy like patent holding firms you wait till there are millions or billions to be made.
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fiberguy
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said by Dogfather :We need penalties for people who bring these suits and lose other than just lawyer fees. You're 100% correct... sadly, congress is too busy chasing baseball players on steroids right now.
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fiberguy
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Your statute of limitations would have applied anyway. When the company went public, it was only then that it was disclosed what they were doing.. it was at that time the suit was brought against them.
But, I do agree.. there should be a SOL.
Hmmm.. interesting.. SOL - Statute of Limitations.. or SOL = Sh*t out of Luck. I wonder if that was planned. |
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