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title: Senators Take Aim at Patent Troll Demand Letter Abuses
date: "2014-03-02T16:07:33-07:00"
modified: "2014-03-02T16:07:33-07:00"
author: kims
url: "https://dominoresearch.com/senators-take-aim-at-patent-troll-demand-letter-abuses"
categories: News & Views, The Domino Effect
tags: ip law, patent trolls, senate
description: So the House passed a bill last year to reign in patent trolls.  While we like trolls, especially the bridge type, we don’t like to see new businesses hamstrung by patent trolls like all those East Texas based boys who go around buying up IP for next to nothing and then putting out silly lawsuits […]
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site_name: DominoResearch.com
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# Senators Take Aim at Patent Troll Demand Letter Abuses

So the House passed a bill last year to reign in patent trolls.  While we like trolls, especially the bridge type, we don’t like to see new businesses hamstrung by patent trolls like all those East Texas based boys who go around buying up IP for next to nothing and then putting out silly lawsuits to squeeze innocent people.

[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/senators-take-aim-troll-demand-letter-abuses](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/senators-take-aim-troll-demand-letter-abuses)