costs

costs

Posted May 19, 2007 22:33 UTC (Sat) by pdundas (subscriber, #15203)
In reply to: It's McCarthyism all over again by egoforth
Parent article: Microsoft takes on the free world (CNN)

A way to do that might be to make the US Patent Office liable for the legal costs of the successful challenger.

A company which made and defended the invalid patent (if they were shown to be knowingly - rather than, say, negligently - ignoring prior art) could also be liable for consequential loss by the challenger - delay to product launch, etc.

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