Patent trolls-patent owners whose primary business is collecting money from others that
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This study examines the reliability of Altman's Z-score model to predict the financial failure of
the ICT sector in Pakistan. Data for 11 PSE-listed (Pakistan Stock Exchange) ICT companies …

ABSTRACT A Standard Setting Organization (" SSO") typically requires its members to
license any standard-essential patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (" …

The Supreme Court's 2oo6 decision in eBay v. MercExchange is widely regarded as one of
the most important patent law rulings of the past decade. Historically, patent holders who …

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Commentators have observed for years that patents do less good and cause more harm in
the software industry than in other industries such as pharmaceuticals. 1 Software patents …

Patent law is intended to foster the creation and distribution of new and valuable inventions.
To further that objective, patent remedies must balance three competing incentives: first …

Courts, commentators, and companies have devoted enormous time and energy to the
problem of standard-essential patents (SEPs)-patents that cover (or at least are claimed to …

In recent years, we have seen a dramatic upsurge of" strategic patent acquisitions." We
define this as the acquisition of a portfolio of patents reading on a specified area such as …

An increasing number of firms are making public pledges to limit the enforcement of their
patents. In doing so, they are entering a littleunderstood middle ground between the public …