{"id":7073,"date":"2012-10-15T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7073"},"modified":"2012-10-15T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:46:10","slug":"trolls-filed-40-of-patent-infringement-lawsuits-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7073","title":{"rendered":"Trolls filed 40% of patent infringement lawsuits in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2158455\">new study<\/a> helps to fill the gap by providing systematic data on the growth of patent troll litigation. Robin Feldman, a professor at UC Hastings College of Law, teamed up with Lex Machina, a Stanford Law spinoff that collects data on patent litigation, to compile a systematic survey of patent litigation. Their results are striking: the fraction of lawsuits filed by troll-like entities grew from 22 percent in 2007 to 40 percent in 2011.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2012\/10\/trolls-filed-40-of-patent-infringement-lawsuits-in-2011\/\">Trolls filed 40% of patent infringement lawsuits in 2011 | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study helps to fill the gap by providing systematic data on the growth of patent troll litigation. Robin Feldman, a professor at UC Hastings College of Law, teamed up with Lex Machina, a Stanford Law spinoff that collects &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7073\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[875,301,734],"class_list":["post-7073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-litigation","tag-patent-trolls","tag-survey-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7399,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073\/revisions\/7399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}