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Make it easier to find prior art and make the loser of a patent suit pay for the suit. That will prevent the most egregious practice of patent trolls bullying small companies into settling befofe the case goes to trial. If the cost of losing a patent litigation was higher, trolling would become economically riskier.


> Make it easier to find prior art

How, exactly?


USPTO has partnered with askpatents.com of StackExchange fame

I was at the roundtable where they announced it: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/init_events/sw_partnership_2013...




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