Study: patent trolls have cost innovators half a trillion dollars
Study: patent trolls have cost innovators half a trillion dollars
By now, the story of patent trolls has become well-known: a small company with no products of its own threatens lawsuits against larger companies who inadvertently infringe its portfolio of broad patents. The scenario has become so common that we don’t even try to cover all the cases here at Ars. If we did, we’d have little time to write about much else. But anecdotal evidence is one thing. Data …