<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sergey Kuznetsov</b> <<a href="mailto:asterisk_biz@deeptown.org">asterisk_biz@deeptown.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Peter Beckman wrote:<br>><br>><br>> She also mentioned that it wasn't out of the question for a federal case<br>> like this to cost $1m/month in legal fees. Ouch.<br>><br>That's what Verizon wants, just to drown smaller competitor knowing that
<br>then can use<br>this stack of patents only once.</blockquote><div><br>patent suits often cost $1-2M, why companies like RTI get $20k for LCR and J2/efax get $1/customer for fax2email. Most people cant afford to fight the patent, but they can afford to license it.
<br><br>With the tort reform that I discussed this cost would be placed on the loser, so if its a bogus patent the patent holder would have to pay the person they tried to sue over it. It would likely make bogus patent suits far less common.
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