The article is out of date -- in a good way -- on one point: It says that to recover attorneys' fees from a troll, the winning defendant must show that the tro

The article is out of date -- in a good way -- on one point: It says that to recover attorneys' fees from a troll, the winning defendant must show that the troll acted in bad faith. The U.S. Supreme Court changed that rule last month, easing the burden of proof considerably, and giving trial judges far more latitude on that score. [1] [1] http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/04/discretion-attorney-litigation.html http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/04/discretion-attorney-liti..., by patent law professor Dennis Crouch.