<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dante-Gabryell Monson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:03 PM<br>Subject: "Patent Trolls Cost The Economy Half A Trillion Dollars"<br>To: <a href="mailto:econowmix@googlegroups.com">econowmix@googlegroups.com</a><br><br><br><a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110919/17065416018/patent-trolls-cost-economy-half-trillion-dollars.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110919/17065416018/patent-trolls-cost-economy-half-trillion-dollars.shtml</a><div>
<br><div>excerpts :</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">new research suggesting that patent trolls�<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110804/02572815385/planet-money-continues-to-show-how-damaging-software-patents-are-to-innovation.shtml" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(26, 81, 143); font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">evaporated half a trillion dollars in wealth</a>.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1930272" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(26, 81, 143); font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);" target="_blank">The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls</a>.�</span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Over the last four years, the total decimation of value from patent troll cases has averaged over $80 billion per year.�</span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">over $320 billion of that $500 billion came in just the last four years.�</span></div>
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