Week 5 EOC: Patent Trolls

These days, it’s very hard to take a side on the matter of patent trolls. Some feel they have a right to do it. "Every plaintiff who brings one of these cases is a private attorney general who is doing a service to the United States, and I'm doing the same," says Mr. Stauffer, a lawyer in Roseland, N.J. Now that they feel they have the right to challenge these patent numbers, companies are using now have to prepare. "These cases have forced companies to spend time, money and resources investigating claims where there really isn't any injury to anybody," says Chicago lawyer Jason C. White. We all know these days that China is distributing a lot of merchandise to American stores but we also know how sneaky the Chinese can be. "You're paying the hostage fee," says Mark Willard who basically found a old patent number on a remolded rake. Many companies are being affected by their intellectual property. An Intellectual property lawyer  named Robert Koch, is advising most of his clients to refrain from marking patent numbers visibly on the product itself. This alone should help control the amount of cases being submitted.