Costly legal costs
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Why is software different
Cost of deciding whether to defend yourself
Cost of defending yourself in court
the average cost of litigation in 2009 for patent cases with less than $1 million at risk was $967,000. For cases with up to $25 million on the line, the average cost was $3.1 million. And for suits with more than $25 million at stake, the average cost to litigate was $6.2 million. [2]
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Costs of the patent system to governments Cost of getting patents Calculating infringement damages in the USA 2008 State of Software Patents (which explains how all businesses are targets ) Invalid patents remain unchallenged Software patents harm SMEs Costs Low risk
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Patently-o: Patent Office Keeps Check, Lets Patent Go Abandoned For Being $10 Short a patent holder says " not an attorney but a pauper disabled living on a fixed income (SSI) who cannot pay $200 to petition your office. " so he will lose his patent EU hopes to lower the cost of a case to €200,000 - so even the best case scenario is ludicrously expensive 3D patent suit extended to Dell, HP, IBM, Sony, others - " Manufacturers would need to pay a patent lawyer a lot of money to decipher whether they're even in violation of the more complex ones or not. "
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