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  The plaintiff is an inventor or original assignee. 
  The plaintiff is actually using the patent.
  The plaintiff is a university or "technology transfer organization"
Last one shouldn't be there. It's redundant with the first in 99% of the cases that matter and sets up an obvious method for the trolls to rebrand themselves as universities or "technology transfer organizations" for the sole purpose of evading the law.

Also, forget the "loser pays" system. Just make establishing one of the first two a prerequisite for having standing to sue for patent infringement.



s/university/accredited university, and strip out the technology transfer organization bit (though again, that leaves ARM in a weird spot)

Somehow I doubt that patent trolls will develop curriculums and bring in students for the sheer purpose of bilking inventors.


ARM falls clearly into the first category. They hire engineers who develop chips and are the original assignee of the patents.

>Somehow I doubt that patent trolls will develop curriculums and bring in students for the sheer purpose of bilking inventors.

Maybe. I could see how they might partner pretty quickly with the likes of the University of Phoenix however.




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