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One of the problems is that this companies don't have anything to loose by bringing these lawsuits. They just have to fill some papers electronically, pay a few hundred dollars and the other party have to loose thousands of dollars to protect itself.


In case you're a non-native speaker and that's not just a typo (since you did it twice), "loose" should be "lose".


I'm not for these patent trolls at all... but litigation costs money on both sides, not just defending.


The cases that these patent trolls bring to court are very similar to each other. If you check the court summons they are almost all the same, they just change the name of the company and some little details.


Right... but the actual court case will cost money. Filing a lawsuit might be cheap but following through surely can't be.




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