A positive force for negative right.

Patents are an unusual property. The ownership of a patent does not permit the owner to do anything except stop someone else from using the patented invention. And so by its very nature, it's  a negative and confrontational, right. Most people and companies who infringe intellectual property rights or patent rights, they're completely unaware that they are infringing the right of someone else.

NPE and Patent Risk

RPX was born in 2008, around the NPE risk problem. Historically, there was as much litigation, maybe more litigation per capita in America in the 1860s to 1880s, as there has been during the sort of peak of the modern NPE era. So patent owners, regardless of whether they're operating companies, or non practicing entities are not a new phenomenon.

Cipher Vision Podcast - Key Takeaway

We are in the middle of dispute after dispute, that seems to be never ending, we just really have a hard time stepping back to see the big picture. My prediction is there will not be any dramatic shifts with respect to at least patent related Policy. Many of the things that we have envisioned we're going to heal the world from NPE's or do great damage to patent implementers or somehow damage inevitably the rights of patent owners almost none of those ever turn out to be true. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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