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Real Drawback to NPE Model is Inefficiency, not Greed

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Real Drawback to NPE Model is Inefficiency, not Greed
Cite
RPX Blog
Year
2009
Bluebook cite
Posting to The Patent Prospector, http://rpxcorp.com/blog/?p=108 (August 13th, 2009 at 6:01 pm)
Author
John A. Amster, Geoffrey T. Barker, Eran Zur
URL
http://rpxcorp.com/blog/?p=108
Item Type
blog
Summary
NPEs are often portrayed as predatory and opportunistic manipulators of intellectual property. But to do so is to confuse the means with the end . . . While NPEs’ willingness to purchase patents has helped develop a much-needed market for otherwise illiquid assets – a highly desirable end for any economic activity – the NPEs’ means of doing so is highly inefficient . . . The source of that inefficiency, of course, is the legal system . . . A more efficient way to create liquidity for patent owners is to remove the need for legal filings, discovery, assertion, and/or trial from the process . . . Aggregators purchasing patents defensively can thus offer fair-market value to inventors without a back-end payment based on litigation that is risky and costly for both plaintiff and defendant.

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