How long before all lawsuits are filed by purely litigation firms?

Summary: A look at the high proportion of patent lawsuits that are filed by entities that make nothing at all and thus serve no role whatsoever in innovation

TROLLS in the United States are a real problem because the USPTO sparingly grants software patents, unlike the EPO (for now).

Matt Levy, an opposer of patent trolls (for a front group, CCIA), has published in his own blog an article which was mentioned here before and refers to this trolls-friendly letter. Meanwhile, another front against trolls says: "Of the 27 patent lawsuits filed today, 22 were filed by patent trolls -- 81%. It's time for Congress to take action to #fixpatents!"

"If software patents were officially made and openly declared verboten in the US, a lot of patent trolls would vanish almost overnight as they depend nearly 100% on software patenting."We recently saw reliable statistics which suggest that nearly 90% of technology patent lawyers are filed by patent trolls, or NPEs. One such firm (more like PAE or patent pool), RPX, made the news last week [1, 2] and turned out to be involved in patent shakedowns. To quote: "Under the terms of the agreement, RPX will receive the right to sublicense a limited number of companies to Kudelski Group patents. Kudelski will receive an upfront payment, mutual patent risk clearance, and a future transfer of patents from RPX."

It is worth noting that much of the above is about software patents, i.e. dubious patents that may no longer be valid (because of Alice). If software patents were officially made and openly declared verboten in the US, a lot of patent trolls would vanish almost overnight as they depend nearly 100% on software patenting. ⬆