EFF: Video: How Justus Decher Beat a Patent Troll, With Help From Alice
Video: How Justus Decher Beat a Patent Troll, With Help From Alice Thousands of patent lawsuits are filed each year, and most of them deal with computer technology and software. Nearly 90 percent of those high-tech patent lawsuits are filed by shell companies that offer the public no products or services whatsoever. These patent-assertion entities, also known as “patent trolls,” simply enrich their owners by extracting money from operating companies. In recent years, the Supreme Court has limited patent venue abuses , made fee-shifting easier , and most importantly, made it easier to throw out bad software patents in its Alice v. CLS Bank decision. Patent troll lawsuits hurt real small businesses owned by regular people, most of whom don’t have the millions of dollars that would be required to defend themselves through a patent trial. We created our “ Saved by Alice ” project to tell their stories—the stories of company founders and entrepreneurs, who were able to keep on inno...