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There very well may be a second order game theory at play - not only you broadcast far and wide that litigation will be exceedingly costly for anyone that tries
by pxmpxm 4y ago
There very well may be a second order game theory at play - not only you broadcast far and wide that litigation will be exceedingly costly for anyone that tries, but you add an explicit threat that any attempt will result in invalidation risk to plaintiff patent portfolio.
For patent trolls, time spent on legal is mostly opportunity cost, but killing their patent portfolio has a real dollar cost associated to it.
- _carbyau_ 4y agoI agree with this. There is a legal fight. Then there is a legal fight to the corporate death. By turning the former into the latter, it should make people think twice. But then people aren't necessarily rational.
- cma 4y agoMany trolls like I think Myhrvold's have something close to a new shell LLC for each major patent and sometimes it can be hard to link it all together (the recent changes to LLC/corporate ownership privacy should help here). It can be hard to even know their full portfolio.