“Trip Trap Trip Trap!” Has Big Billy Goat Gruff Come to Kill the Patent Troll?

Wyche Inside IP By Wallace K. Lightsey What to do about “patent trolls” – entities that own patents and threaten infringement lawsuits to obtain license fees, but which do not actually make products using the patents they own – has been the subject of a lot of talk and has prompted a flurry of federal…
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You Should Get A License For That

Wyche Inside IP By Meliah Bowers Jefferson CEO Elon Musk, recently created a lot of media attention for his company Tesla Motors, when he announced that the company was giving away free access to the company’s patented technology.  In a blog post on Tesla’s website, Musk proclaimed: “in the spirit of the open source movement,…
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