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Patent Attorneys Asserting Their Own Patents

Sometimes against their own former clients.

As a followup to "Patent Hawk" Sues Microsoft, Former Client, for Patent Infringement (Against Monopoly cross-post), see the insightful Law.com article by the tenacious Joe Mullin, Some IP Attorneys Look to Make Their Mark as Patent-Holders, as well as his blog posts "Patent Hawk" lawsuit was an inside job, says Microsoft and Zilka & Kotab, a.k.a. Aloft Media, file patent lawsuit against Google's Chrome browser; the latest of many.

Cross-posted at Mises Blog.


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