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Interview with co-sponsor of the SHIELD Act

DateFriday, March 1, 2013 at 03:41PM

"This morning, Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) introduced the SHIELD Act, which would create a "loser pays" system for some types of patent litigants. The bill is meant to stymie companies that do nothing more than file patent lawsuits. Ars spoke with DeFazio at CES 2013 in January, when this bill was still in the formative stages, to get some background about how the bill developed, and the problems the Oregon representative hopes it will solve."

Read the whole interview at Ars Technica: Troll hunter: meet the Oregon lawmaker who may fix the patent mess.

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