Stanford CIS

Farm victim of ‘patent troll’ lawsuit

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"Most such litigation settles fairly quickly due to cost pressures, rather than the merit of the allegations, said Daniel Nazer, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that defends “civil liberties in the digital world.”

Even the simplest patent lawsuit is rarely litigated through trial for less than $1 million, while bigger cases commonly cost more than $10 million, Nazer said.

“Patent litigation is sometimes called the sport of kings,” he said. “They tend to be complicated cases with experts and a lot of document discovery.”"