CEA is sponsoring a new “Trolling Effects” website...
CEA is sponsoring a new “Trolling Effects” website that will allow entities that receive demand letters from “patent trolls” to post the documents online. The website will also allow individuals to research “exactly who is really behind these threats,” CEA…
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said. “Initiatives like Trolling Effects -- coupled with smart legislation from Congress -- promise an end to the patent troll plague and allow entrepreneurs to innovate without constant threat of frivolous lawsuits,” said CEA President Gary Shapiro in a statement. Other groups sponsoring the site are: the Application Developers Alliance, Ask Patents, Computer & Communications Industry Association, Electronic Frontier Foundation, New York University Law School’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, startup advocacy group Engine, Public Knowledge, Public Patent Foundation and the University of California-Berkeley School of Law’s Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic (http://bit.ly/14guT69).