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nice idea, but unfortunately that then doesn't work in the patent trolling case. the troll has a clear incentive to minimise their own costs (filing hundreds o
by brey 12y ago
nice idea, but unfortunately that then doesn't work in the patent trolling case.
the troll has a clear incentive to minimise their own costs (filing hundreds of carbon-copy suits must have huge economies of scale, each one has to be cheap or their model doesn't work), but the defendant still has to spend lots to defend, with only the upside of 2 * a small amount to collect when they win.
- jpatokal 12y agoFiling a lawsuit is cheap enough. Defending in court is what's expensive, and that's what trolls rely on: pay them money and make the pain go away. The other upside to winning is that you no longer have to pay whatever the patent troll was trying to extort.