- Name
- 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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