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on the supreme court decision

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JUN. 17, 2016

Innovation Alliance Statement on Supreme Court Decision Giving Judges Greater Discretion to Award Enhanced Damages for Patent Infringement

...“The decision is important because it expressly acknowledges that infringers are capable of abusive conduct with respect to patents, and that such abuse can do serious harm to the patent owner’s property rights and business.  The decision also restores crucial disincentives against infringement, without which serial patent theft becomes a rational and efficient business strategy (i.e., ‘efficient infringement’).  The decision properly makes purposeful infringement riskier and potentially more costly and restores discretion to award enhanced damages to the trial judge, where it belongs.
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“The Innovation Alliance is hopeful that this decision marks a turning point, and the courts, the Congress, and USPTO begin to restore the critical patent rights that are so important to American innovation and job creation and that have been lost over the last decade.  At the same time, we will continue to support common sense reforms that penalize bad conduct and abusive litigation without restricting the ability of patent holders to defend their innovations.”
https://innovationalliance.net/from-the-alliance/innovation-alliance-statement-supreme-court-decision-giving-judges-greater-discretion-award-enhanced-damages-patent-infringement/