Essential Tips to Protect Your Business against Patent Trolls

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Essential Tips to Protect Your Business against
Patent Trolls

• By Unified Patents

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Protect Your Business against Patent Trolls

• Patent trolls are just as bad as everyone says
  they are. Patent trolls have become a big problem
  for many businesses. Patent trolls attack
  vulnerable businesses with a lawsuit claiming
  patent infringement. Since the patent trolls
  trend increasing rapidly, you need to protect
  your business.

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What is a patent troll?

• A company that obtains the right to one or more
  patents in order to profit by means of licensing
  or litigation, rather than by producing its own
  goods or services.

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Here are some tips for NPE patent litigation.

• Take it easy
• Alternative options to fight with trolls
• Use legal counsel

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Take it easy

• Did you receive an email from a patent troll
  claiming that you are using their patent and have
  to give them x amount of dollars as a license
  payment? If yes then its not wise to get
  emotional or reply instantly, no matter how
  disgraceful the threatening letter may be.
• Try to take these letters as normal emails and
  control your emotions in this tense moment. The
  main motive of these trolls letters to reach out
  a large number of audiences, hoping to con one or
  two people. So, dont feed the troll by
  responding to these emails. The best thing to
  avoid these trolls is to stay calm, chill, dont
  panic and dont feed the trolls.

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Alternative options to fight with trolls

• Your research can give you a good idea about the
  patent existence and whether you should take it
  seriously or not. You have the options whether to
  respond or not, hire a lawyer to deal with the
  matter or not. But you have several other
  choices you had no idea about. You can file a
  complaint against patent troll with the help of
  BBB (The Better Business Bureau). This is a
  complaint mechanism in which BBU ask the troll to
  respond. The good thing is that a nonmember can
  also use this complaint mechanism.

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Use legal counsel

• A patent troll is not a piece of cake, so dont
  fight with them alone. It always better to use
  legal counsel who specializes in patent law.
  Consult an attorney who is professional and
  experienced in the field of IPR (intellectual
  property rights) to not only ensure your product
  and service is genuine but also helps you expand
  the required patents to guard your own assets.

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