Heh. More evidence for something I've been hearing for a while, the mass quantities of patent lawsuits in this "rocket docket" has had the side effect of educating everyone in it about this area of law, and it's getting harder to win a bad case.
[1]http://www.ipnav.com/blog/ptab-trolls-going-after-patent-own...
The legal system still seem to be broken, because it should offer a large reward to the "PTAB troll" to be paid by the patent owner so that instead of settling they would go through and invalidate the patent, while still getting money from the patent owner, who would also lose the money from the (non-)infringer.
Sounds like an opportunity to me. They might have existing licensing revenue and they are going to be wondering what to do if patent trolling ain't the name of their game anymore.
Are you sure? Litigation isn't always expensive if you're doing it in-house.
Work costs money, sure, but I'm skeptical of 'millions of dollars.'
It costs millions on the defense side. The plaintiffs don't have any documents to discover and the attorneys are usually the partners in the scam, so it's almost free to them. That's the whole point of trolling in East Texas: the court rules make it even more expensive to be a defendant and cheaper to be a plaintiff.
Which is kind of the point of the "educating everyone" statement, as I understand it.
What's so difficult to believe about people being able to learn through experience? If any of these EDTX judges got reversed on appeal, that would have been a learning experience ^_^.
And dragonwriter's understanding is correct.
Enough fast ones get pulled and they start catching on. That's who's being educated: the courts and legal community.