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July 26, 2018 02:34 pm PDT
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Appeals court kills the dirty trick of using Indian tribes as a front for patent trolls and claiming sovereign immunity
In late 2017, we learned that patent trolls (especially pharma patent gougers) were paying US Native Indian tribes to act as fronts for them in order to block review and cancellation of bogus patents -- the tribes have a treaty right to "sovereign immunity," which protects them from some forms of litigation. (more…)
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