Study finds rising activity from patent trolls

Seventy percent of venture capitalists and one in three startup companies have received patent assertions, or claims from patent trolls, according to a new survey from the National Venture Capital Association and the Institute for Innovation Law at University of California Hastings. Eighty percent of survey respondents indicated that the number of patent demands they have received increased over the past five years, the report found.

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