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'the number of patents to be examined for potential violation'
Authored by: jkrise on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 12:15 PM EST
The litigant with the largest patent pool would be the most likely to succeed...

Ir-respective of the quality of the patents, and in my post, I have suggested a method to solve this vexatious problem. Let us say,a patentee alleges that the defendant has infringed on 100 patents. He must be allowed to present evidence for ALL THE 100 patents, instead of compelling him to reduce it to 3 or 4. But there should be 2 conditions:

1. If only 3 out of the 100 patents are found to be infringed; the damages must be computed as 3 / 100 * price of infringing product. Such a formula encourages the patentee to bring lesser patents to suit.

2. Additionally; all 100 patents must be re-examined preliminarily, and conclusively. A 10-fold penalty has to be levied on every invalid patent, brought in suit. Suppose 67 patents out of the 100 are found to be conclusively invalid. The plaintiff should be fined 67 * 10 * full price of allegedly infringing product of defendant.

Under such a system, the court is not arbitrarily restricting the number of allegedly genuine, valuable patents that are brought in suit. It is the plaintiff who makes a calculated decision on how many patents to bring. If he seriously feels all 100 are genuine, valuable, and infringed, let him bring it on, and be rewarded. Else if brings on just 3, it is the plaintiff's decision, not an artificial restriction from the court.

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