Columbia Professor Latest To Go On The Patent Offensive

Courtesy Techdirt  Mon, 03/24/2008 - 03:25

Over the last year or so, we've seen two disturbing trends in enforcing patents. The first, is seeing patent holders suing a bunch of companies at once rather than just one or two, as used to be standard.

They do this because they fear that some type of patent reform is coming, either via Congress or the courts.

So they want to get as many patent suits in as quickly as possible. The second trend is that, rather than...

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