posted on 21/10/2012 21:26 #patents
> An academic paper from law professor Colleen Chien of Santa Clara University looks more closely at the challenges patents pose for startups. She found 40 percent of the respondents to her survey reported trolls causing significant operational impact on their young businesses, including delays in hiring, undesirable changes of strategy, and loss — or elimination — of value. --Numbers don’t lie: Patent trolls are a plague | Open Source Software - InfoWorld