Op-Ed: Senator Hatch: It’s Time to Kill Patent Trolls for Good

digital233
Mar 16, 2015
1 min read

Since 2011, Overstock.com, from my home state of Utah, has been targeted by 28 so-called patent “trolls,” seeking to enforce vague patents. Often these trolling lawsuits come from shell corporations that don’t make or sell anything. Because Overstock refuses to settle such abusive suits, it ends up spending millions of dollars in litigation costs.

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