Patent Law

Facile Treatment

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

Here we go again. "There should be greater penalties in respect of patent holders who make unjustified threats of legal proceedings. "Patent trolls" should not be allowed to flourish and to hold public and private investors in research and development to ransom." - Australian academic Matthew Rimmer

Rimmer's ABC News smorgasbord op-ed is unremarkable, other than pulling an anti-inventor viper out of the hat in the finale.

Rimmer mentioned a dissertation by James McDonough, now at Fish & Richardson. McDonough called me while at Emory law school to discuss patent trolls. Receiving the Patent Hawk viewpoint turned his head, resulting in his excellent paper.

Wonder who paid Rimmer for the propaganda piece.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).