Most Software Patent Trolls Lose Lawsuits

An anonymous reader writes "A new study is out concerning patent trolls and software patents, which found the rather surprising news that the most litigated patents tend to lose nearly 90% of the time. When broken down into different categories, patent trolls and software patents lose their lawsuits most often. While some may suggest this means 'the system is working,' that's not really true. The data suggests that most companies, when threatened with a lawsuit, end up settling or licensing to avoid the high costs of litigating. But the fact that so few software patents and patent trolls do well at trial may be more incentive to fight back. Either way, what does seem pretty obvious is that all those ridiculous patents you see in patent lawsuits are, in fact, bad patents."

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Re:On the other hand...

[ciaran_o_riordan]

I bet a lot of patent trolls don't have much money in the bank.

Acacia does a lot of troll suits under other names: IP Innovations, Acacia Technologies, or Acacia Media Technologies, among others.

I wonder if this is a way to protect Acacia from having the pay the losses. Maybe when they lose, they just tear up the piece of paper on which that legal entity existed. ...and make two more.