Any decent attorney never asks a question he doesn't know the answer to - so I will provide edification for you on the Supreme Court decisions.
"Supreme Court upholds patent review process, dealing trolls a blow" - 04/24/2018
"The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a process for challenging low-quality patents. Since its creation in 2011, this "inter partes review" (IPR) process has dramatically lowered the cost of defending against frivolous patent litigation.
Tech companies and app developers everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief after Monday's major Supreme Court ruling on a topic that's close to their hearts: patents. More specifically, patent lawsuits — a rising number of which analysts say are bogus and threaten to strangle new start-ups and inventions before they have a chance to succeed.
The case is called TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods.
Moreover, the Supreme Court has over and over concerned themselves with patent trolls (see eBay v. MercExchange, Halo Electronics and Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc.)
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"Patent Trolls in Texas Take Another Hit"
Plaintiffs in patent lawsuits used to flock to the Eastern District.of Texas because they could sue anywhere in the United States and the Eastern District has long been notoriously friendly to plaintiffs. In 2016, Marshall, Texas with a population of only 24,000, was home to an astonishing 25 percent of all patent filings in the U.S. In May of 2017, however, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods that plaintiffs can’t forum shop to find a friendly court. Instead patent plaintiffs must file in districts where the company being sued is incorporated or where it has an established place of business.
Those two rulings are the start of patent troll killing.
LMAO! Wasn't Chanbond located in Texas! What a scam.
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The process allows an executive branch agency—not the courts—to revoke a patent after it has been granted."
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