• “The Web’s longest nightmare ends: Eolas’ patents are dead on appeal” [Joe Mullin, Ars Technica]
• Another E.D. Tex. jury: “Lawyer Explains How To Bag A Patent Troll At Trial” [Daniel Fisher]
• Practical steps? “Trolling Effects” database modeled on “Chilling Effects”. Prior art clearinghouse [Joel Spolsky] Vermont, Nebraska AGs rattle sabers on behalf of local businesses [WaPo]
• Meanwhile, from the other side: “The Myth of the ‘Patent Troll’ Litigation Explosion” [Adam Mossoff, Truth on the Market] “A Line in the Sand on the Calls for New Patent Legislation” [Wayne Sobon, Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property; CPIP video interviews with retired Federal Circuit Chief Judge Paul Michel and retired Federal Circuit Judge Arthur Gajarsa]
• Grocers, restaurants, retailers enter fray with anti-troll ad campaign [David Balto/U.S. News, Katy Bachman/AdWeek, Food Marketing Institute]
• Manhattan Institute weighs in with “Trial Lawyers Inc.” entry [Point of Law; Jim Copland, Politico]
• When “set up as shell companies without much in assets” trolls might not be likely targets for fee recovery at lawsuit’s end; and what’s this about offshore bank accounts? [Todd Moore]

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