Patent Law – The Patent Troll Update: News and Strategy – Winter 2016

The latest on patent trolls and how to stop them:

2015 was the second biggest year ever for filing patent lawsuits.

A jury found Apple owes $626 million in damages for infringing a patent by the use of software including FaceTime and iMessage.

The National Retail Federation is lobbying Congress to pass patent reform legislation.

The Virginia Attorney General created a Patent Troll Unit to take action, including filing for injunctions, against patent trolls.

Finally, in a potentially interesting development, a number of companies started a joint patent licensing program that is supposed to the patent litigation version of “herd immunity.”

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