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March 29, 2006
IP litigation
A sampling of today's business news:
Patent Trolls Lurk in Supreme Court Case
And what was that I heard recently about IP litigation not being out of control?
I have been told that 3,000 patent lawsuits filed each year and 75,000 letters are sent each year asserting patent infringement.
Seems like a lot of litigation going on. That certainly boosts our annual spending on intangibles (maybe we could count it all as the "dark matter" in our trade statistics -- at least that part that involves foreign companies). I'm not sure it adds much to our innovative capability or our standard of living, however.
Posted by Ken Jarboe at March 29, 2006 11:14 AM
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