An effort should be made to define...
An effort should be made to define “trollish” behavior for the purposes of patent legislation, said the Institute for Policy Innovation in a Thursday blog post (http://bit.ly/14M7x8N). “These are the people who bring, or threaten to bring, abusive, frivolous litigation…
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that is designed to leach onto innovation and drain its value,” it said. Eliminating so-called trolls will require a focus on the system that enables their behavior, it said. It backed an expansion of the Patent and Trademark Office’s business-method patent review program, currently limited to financial services, to cover all business-method patents, which would “bring relief to those directly involved in shakedown litigation,” it said. It would allow the PTO to “weed out the worst” of the bad patents.