Assignment #9 Patent litigation part 3

In this post I will talk a little more about the effects that NPE's have on businesses. In addition I will talk about the top 10 businesses that were targeted in 2013. In 2013 Patent trolls filed 19% more lawsuits against companies in comparison to 2012. This is a huge problem as many big businesses are the main targets of these trolls and most times that a lawsuit is filed the business ends up losing a ton of money in a settlement deal with the patent trolls. In the last year patent trolls have made headlines in the political agenda as many people are fighting to somehow get rid of them or take away the amount of power they possess. Even President Obama said in his 2013 state of the union address that we need sometime of patent reform in order to curb needless litigation. In 2013 Patent trolls sued over 4,800 different entities and 2600 companies. A crazy statistic that I found interesting is that patent trolls sued AT&T 54 times in 2013 which is more than once a week.



Here is the list of the top 10 companies with the most lawsuits filed against them

1. AT&T
2. Google
3. Verizon
4. Apple
5. Samsung
6. Amazon
7. Dell
8. Sony
9. Huawei
10. Blackberry

Something interesting to note here is that all of these companies are in the tech industry and this is a big problem especially since these companies are responsible for so many innovations that effect our lives.