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Corporate Bad Activity Against Innovators

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Patent trolls are an easy one, but heavy handed regulatory activity by incumbents and random lawsuits around acquisitions are also part for the course. Virtual Legality: Legal Letters Claim Oculus VR Made The Oculus Rift Using ZeniMax IP. Deals acquisitions deals facebook m&a oculus zenimax'

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Sawyer on Why Bilski Really Means That Software Companies Should Leave the US

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And the PTO, headed now by the pro-patent former head of IP at IBM, David Kappos, will continue to treat patentees like “customers” and pump economy-destroying patents out as it if were the Fed printing money. As others have written about, the Supreme Court has become a rubber stamp on public opinion and on Congress. currently.

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