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State Anti-Troll Statutes at the Federal Circuit. Or Not
2024
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Title
State Anti-Troll Statutes at the Federal Circuit. Or Not
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Item Type
Journal article
Description
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In the past decade, more than thirty states have enacted statutes prohibiting “bad faith” assertions of patent infringement. The statutes were enacted in response to a few patentees--“patent trolls” under almost any definition of the term--who sent letters to thousands of unsuspecting businesses (and even a few government agencies), threatening to enforce patents that were laughably broad and probably invalid, covering things like scanning a document to send over email or using a fan to remove moisture. State statutes regulating what patentees may say or do when enforcing their patents are unusual because patent law in the United States is commonly thought to be the federal government's domain, not the states'. And yet the number of cases filed under the new state “anti-troll” statutes has been slowly increasing. Recently, private parties and state attorneys general have filed claims in North Carolina, Oregon, Washington, Rhode Island, Maine, Wisconsin, Arizona, and elsewhere.
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Series
AIPLA Quarterly Journal, Summer 2023, Volume 51, Issue 3, p.395.
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Published
[New York, NY] : Thomson Reuters, 2024.
Language
English
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