[P2P-F] Fwd: "Patent Trolls Cost The Economy Half A Trillion Dollars"

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:03 PM
Subject: "Patent Trolls Cost The Economy Half A Trillion Dollars"
To: econowmix at googlegroups.com


http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110919/17065416018/patent-trolls-cost-economy-half-trillion-dollars.shtml

excerpts :

new research suggesting that patent trolls evaporated half a trillion
dollars in wealth<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110804/02572815385/planet-money-continues-to-show-how-damaging-software-patents-are-to-innovation.shtml>
.

The Private and Social Costs of Patent
Trolls<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1930272>
.

Over the last four years, the total decimation of value from patent troll
cases has averaged over $80 billion per year.

over $320 billion of that $500 billion came in just the last four years.



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