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What would actually happen is that high-dollar lawyers would not take low-dollar cases. Small fraud would be effectively legalized.
by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
What would actually happen is that high-dollar lawyers would not take low-dollar cases. Small fraud would be effectively legalized.
- seabee 13y agoExcept that low-dollar cases are dealt with through a small claims court: http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/law_e/law_legal_system_e/law_taking_legal_action_e/small_claims.htm http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/law_e/law_legal_system...
- Daniel_Newby 13y agoPerhaps. Fraud tends to require an extensive discovery process to establish the facts, but small claims court is optimized for cases where the facts are agreed upon but the application of law is in dispute.
- kamjam 13y agoThere's also the police, whose job it is to investigate crime...
- darkarmani 13y agoGood. Small fraud doesn't really matter when you are talking about patents, because they are so expensive to get and litigate. Patents that aren't valuable shouldn't block innovation.
- webjprgm 13y agoCould we have loser-pays-cost only for patent lawsuits?
- njharman 13y agoAlso, instead of Patent trolls there would be (even more) lawsuit trolls. Every mechanism has a means to game it.