Patent Trolls Around the World

Bill Heinze posts a discussion on his I/P Updates blog of the Center for Advanced Study & Research on Intellectual Property's Newsletter's comparative country analysis of patent trolls.

Commentators in the newsletter put forth a number of reasons to explain why so-called "patent trolls" thrive in the U.S. patent system, including our:

• Liberal Approach to Patentability
• Ability to receive a Permanent Injunction
• Rampant Forum Shopping
• Treble Damages
• Low Threshold for Nonobviousness
• High Reversal Rate of the Federal Circuit

The countries/regions reviewed are Europe, Japan, Taiwan and the U.S.  See Mr Heinze's discussion with related links here.