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Title    Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll.
Date    Thursday August 14 2014, @11:47AM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the one-for-the-little-guy dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/08/14/0658246

Blackmoore writes:

The latest from the "lawyer-eat-lawyer" dept. from Medium.com:

Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll.

Free legal support drastically changes a patent troll's calculus. They win by offering to settle cases for less than the cost of the legal defense. It's much cheaper for defendants to pay a troll $50,000 to settle a lawsuit than to pay lawyers $200,000 to win it. However, when a law school clinic is involved, the cost of legal defense drops to zero, and defendants have no incentive to pay trolls anything at all. With a free legal and a winning defense, who wouldn't fight all the way to trial? [...] Running a patent litigation defense clinic is not easy, but its possible, and its a worthwhile project. Patent trolls hurt innovation, and law students can help stop them.

This is a pleasant idea — the law students get practical experience; and the Patent troll gets to deal with a free defense against the claim. A real win for everyone.

Has anyone else seen a local law school pick up these kind of cases?

Links

  1. "Blackmoore" - mailto:blackmoore@soylentnews.org
  2. "Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll." - https://medium.com/patents-technology-law/law-students-fend-off-a-patent-troll-2b8a708277fc

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