Posner On Patent Trolls

On July 21, 2013, Judge Posner (of the Seventh Circuit) wrote an article entitled “Patent Trolls.” Judge Posner proposes to solve the so-called patent troll problem by creating “a rule that barred enforcement of a patent that was not reduced to practice within a specified time after the patent was granted, with extensions allowed for inventions that required an unusual amount of post-patent development to reduce to practice.” Regardless of one’s thoughts on “trolls,” the article is worth a read.