DC Court Ruling Makes Life Tougher For Patent Trolls

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D.C. Court Ruling Makes Life Tougher For Patent Trolls
Congress addressed some of the most irritating habits of patent trolls – including firing shotgun litigation at multiple defendants and dragging them into inconvenient jurisdictions like East Texas – with the America Invents Act last year. But that left thousands of patents still governed by previous law, and plenty of room for patent owners who had no intention of ever selling a product to use litigation to take money from companies that do. A recent decision by a Washington appeals court appears to have ended the game for old patents as well. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last month intervened in a lawsuit against EMC, Iron Mountain, GoDaddy and 15 other companies to prevent the plaintiff from bundling them together into one action in Tyler, Texas.

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