M·CAM in Al Jazeera “Will 2014 bring the death of the patent troll?”

Date:  Fri, 2013-12-27

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – On December 27, 2013 M-CAM’s Dr. David Martin was featured in the Al Jazeera article, “Will 2014 bring the death of the patent troll?”

“Why so much attention to patent reform in such a relatively short period of time? Because “patent trolls” ”” companies that exist solely to acquire patents and then sue other companies for infringement ”” are filing more lawsuits than ever, more than 3,000 in 2012 alone.”

In this article, M-CAM provides its analysis on a case study regarding the “uniqueness” of U.S. patent No. 5,675,507. It was hardly unique.

“This is where David Martin and M-CAM sometimes come into the process. M-CAM has a database that includes 90 percent of all the patents that have ever been issued and a matching system that determines how similar they are to a patent in question. Recently, Martin did a search to see if any previously existing patents matched Bobo’s. He found 5,160 matches.”

You can read the full story and try the interactive documents:HERE.