Patent TrollThe response of intellectual property system of America to Patent Trolls: case study of eBay

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Private law, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch , Tehran, Iran)Corresponding Author)

2 PhD Student of Private Law, University of Judicial Sciences and Administrative Affairs, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

According to the nature of inventions, they are easily exposed to various illegal usages which should be recognized and tackled. One of the illegal usages that is considered in the United States is Patent Trolls. These institutions are unproductive and they purchase minor inventions without trying to commercialize them and they want to gain profit from the producers who unknowingly make use of innovations belonging to patent trolls and as a result they deprive the society of the innovations’ outcomes. Patent Trolls consequences on businesses, public welfare and issues like this generates legislative, judicial and doctrinal repercussions and responses throughout the Unites States.  As a result, in order to diminish the activity of the patent trolls, some new laws are passed and the methods of compensation have been altered since most lawyers consider the existence of these institutions to be destructive for innovation. With regards to new founding of patent troll in intellectual property arena, this paper examine the response of law system to the trolls as a controversial issue of patents area.

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