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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Patent trolls want $1,000-for using scanners
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Wed Jan 2 11:11:29 2013
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Patent trolls want $1,000-for using scanners
http://t.co/0z3KK4j5 (ars technica)
Vicinanza's experience puts him at the heart of a type of "patent
trolling" that has taken off in the past year. The Project
Paperless via AdzPro letter-writing campaign is a kind of
lowest-common-denominator patent demand. Patent-licensing
companies are going after the users of everyday technology rather
than their traditional targets, the tech companies that actually
make technology. This year, more than ever, trolls have moved
beyond tech in a big way. Smaller and smaller companies are being
targeted. In a paper on "Startups and Patent Trolls," Prof.
Colleen Chien of Santa Clara University found that 55 percent of
defendants to patent troll suits are small, with less than $10
million in annual revenue. Even in the tech sector, a full 40
percent of the time, respondents to patent threats are being sued
over technology that they use (like scanners or Wi-Fi) rather than
their own technology.
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