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Pirates Beware: Amazon Patent Aims to Sink Shipments of Counterfeit Products

Gone are the days of pirate ships bristling with cannons and chests of stolen treasure.  Modern pirates operate computers, and their valuable targets are often intangible.  Nonetheless, their thievery remains a scourge of modern commerce . . . . at least it once was. Amazon’s newly patented technology (US10664797B2) is …

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Fee Structures for Managing Patent Litigation Costs

There’s no way around it: patent litigation costs can come as a surprise to those who have not been involved in it.  One economic survey estimated that, in 2019, the cost of patent litigation through trial and post-trial motions ranged from $700,000 to $4 million[1] for cases where $1 million …

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