PIA Warns Members Against Patent Trolls

This experience is consistent with a disturbing trend in the country—patent trolling. According to a recent report by The White House, suits brought by patent trolls have tripled in the last two years, rising from 29 percent of all infringement suits to 62 percent of all infringement cases.

The patents in question describe a method or process, allowing patent holders to go after the users of technology—printers in this case—rather than limiting their focus to technology manufacturers. The patent trolls do not just target large companies. Small, medium and large printers have been sent threatening letters demanding recompense for patent infringement.