For years, Big Tech has tried to cast itself as the victim of an unfair patent system, claiming that startups and smaller competitors (derisively labeled “patent trolls”) file patent infringement lawsuits in the hopes of wringing massive, billion-dollar settlements from big companies. That narrative doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. New data show that blockbuster patent damage awards are the exception, not the rule, and that […]
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Chris Israel is the executive director of the U.S. Alliance of Startups and Inventors for Jobs and a former U.S. intellectual property enforcement coordinator. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.