By Ashby Jones
The universe of options for companies fighting with “non-practicing entities” (aka “patent trolls”) is regarded as being fairly limited.
Companies typically just defend themselves when named as defendants in lawsuits by NPEs, which buy up patents and seek to make money from them through licensing and litigation. Occasionally, companies have pre-emptively asked a judge to declare either that a particular NPE patent is invalid or that no infringement took place.
But Cisco Systems Inc. is trying a different, more aggressive approach. Cisco is filing claims against NPEs, accusing them of breaking the law.
Read the full story on The WSJ’s Law Blog.
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