A potentially fatal blow against trolls

[Saxum]

No not football trolls unfortunately; those are fed and kept as house pets apparently.

 

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3153924/technology-law-regulation/a-potentially-fatal-blow-against-patent-trolls.html

 

 

 

For years, patent trolls have been the best evidence that pure evil exists. And like most evil entities, they are almost impossible to stop. Even a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court decision that was highly critical of patent trolls has done little to slow their slimy, reptilian-like existence. But a federal judge on Dec. 19 crafted a novel tactic to curb patent trolls when she slapped a half-million-dollar bill on the lawyers and said that they were personally responsible for paying it, not their client. This could truly be a game-changer.

 

What the judge specifically did was to tell Gust that it could retrieve the court’s ordered money from either the law firm or the patent troll. That is interesting, because the lawyers representing the patent troll, according to Bruno, had already told the firm that suing the patent troll was pointless because it had no money, making it judgment-proof. That statement helped convince the judge to go after the law firm’s funds, Bruno said.

 

Very, very interesting article. We deal with similar issue at work dealing with other kind of leaches.

 

 

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[Acantha]

No not football trolls unfortunately; those are fed and kept as house pets apparently.

 

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3153924/technology-law-regulation/a-potentially-fatal-blow-against-patent-trolls.html

 

 

 

 

Very, very interesting article. We deal with similar issue at work dealing with other kind of leaches.

 

 

Might slow things down a for a minute, but I imagine it's as easy as finding a way to pay that doesn't directly link to the profits of the trolling.