Champerty watch: “Patent Pirates”

“Hedge funds and institutional investors are financing the latest wave of IP lawsuits. … Says Daniel McCurdy, a patent consultant in Warren, N.J., ‘They are the arms merchants in the new patent wars.'” (Nathan Vardi, Forbes, May 7). For more on champerty, a former offense at common law which consisted of financing the prosecution of a lawsuit in exchange for a share of the proceeds, follow this link.

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