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: Point of Law"New Breed of Patent Claim Bedevils Product Makers"
By Ted Frank
The Federal Circuit's Tuesday ruling in Stauffer v. Brooks Brothers permits qui tam relators to sue over mismarked patents, even when they have not personally been injured; together with an earlier decision that the $500 fine for violating the statute is calculated per mismarked item, rather than per incident, exposes manufacturers to potentially billions of dollars of liability. Naturally, a number of plaintiffs' lawyers are engaging in rent-seeking. [WSJ; Reuters; Bloomberg]
Full post as published by Point of Law on September 02, 2010 (boomark / email).
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