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There needs to be a cash penalty for people bringing frivolous patent claims - and that money should be awarded to the defendant. Then you could get no-win-no-fee laywers defending collections of small devs against claims they think are unlikely to win but which the devs couldn't afford to defend against.


Texas passed such a bill last week, and others are hoping to take it nation-wide. I'm skeptical on the latter.

http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/235348-loser-pays-bill-pas...

http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/235498-texas-lawmaker-prop...




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