Comments on: December 13 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/12/december-13-roundup-2/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:20:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: PointOfLaw Forum https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/12/december-13-roundup-2/comment-page-1/#comment-139483 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:15:12 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=26078#comment-139483 Around the web, December 15…

Our coverage of (and my litigation against) coupon settlements earns Missouri an dishonorable mention in the 2011-12 Judicial Hellholes report. Philadelphia gets the #1 spot. [Report; website] Thom Lambert is skeptical of the American Antitrust Institu…

]]> By: Yeaah https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/12/december-13-roundup-2/comment-page-1/#comment-138909 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:42:56 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=26078#comment-138909 The real cost of patent trolls: there is one more side to patent trolling.

While big companies sue each other or are being sued by trolls, small companies are almost never sued. The threat of lawsuit is enough to make a small company pay the fee, regardless of patent reasonability. The lawsuit would destroy them regardless of the output, so they choose to pay the troll.

I guess that those ‘lost money’ amount would be even much higher if it would be possible count it.

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