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Trend in East Texas regarding money hungry patent trolls

April 2nd, 2011

Have you ever had one of those moments when you are watching a movie and there is a particular part that catches your attention and sticks with you until the right moment comes to apply it to your life? Well, mine is from National Treasure and this is the moment.

Remember towards the end of the movie and the good guys are being held hostage and forced to help the bad guys find the treasure? And as they are walking along held at gun point, the wise older father turns to his son, and says “You have to change the status quo.”

Well, imagine me as the wise older father and the court houses of Marshall, Texarkana, and Tyler Texas as the son, “You have to change the status quo.” because your being held hostage.

This trend of money-hungry patent trolls coming to these towns must stop. There has been a status quo established in the eastern district of Texas that has helped to intensify the illegitament business of making money off of bought out patents.

This status quo includes sped up court process specifically for patent infringement and a high percentage of victory for plaintiffs of these cases. Now there is not much you can do about the jury’s findings because jury tampering is illegal.

But one thing to consider is the manner in which the judges are handling the court process of these particular cases. A set of “no nonsense” rules have been established in which lawyers are given a limit of time to present all paper work and are timed by a chess timer when presenting their case in which they are abruptly stopped if the timer goes off.

These types of things are a major part of why their courts are found so appealing for this abuse. In order for these judges to continue their commitment to the betterment of our nation they must change the status quo held in their court houses.

Misunderstood patent holders with rights fighting in East Texas

January 3rd, 2011

Misunderstood patent trollsIt’s one of your classic movie plots. Good guys fight bad guys, only to find out that bad guys are misunderstood, thus a compromise is made, fighting stops and now, no more enemies. So it would seem to be taking place in the federal court rooms of East Texas and other parts of the United States.

Could it be that the so called “patent trolls” that have been portrayed as abusers of our legal system for profit are, in reality, simply misunderstood patent holders with rights?

The rising unethical practice of purchasing unmanufactured patent rights in order to sue companies with manufactured products that have the possibility of infringing on the patent has made its enemies throughout the last number of years.

And as the practice is understood, it is justifiably so. But are these “trolls” really doing anything different than your average patent holder? The very creation of the concept of patent holding is to ensure the protection of intellectual property or ideas of invention.

When a patent holders “property” is being produced without their permission, they have the right to be compensated for the infringed use of their idea. This means that the accused patent trolls are practicing the same rights as any patent holder when they pursue anybody who has produced a product or service that infringes upon their patent.

So, technically they are under the same labeling as your average patent holder. Where they vary from the rest is in the area of morally or ethics of why they do it. The pure concept of the labeling a company a ”patent troll” is based on the aggressive pursuit and use of patents solely for litigation without any motivation to manufacture the product, which stunts innovation.

So, our beloved patent trolls not misunderstood, they are bad through and through.