{"id":73056,"date":"2016-09-30T16:30:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T20:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=73056"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:27:00","slug":"attorney-lee-cheng-patents-are-crap","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/attorney-lee-cheng-patents-are-crap","title":{"rendered":"Lee Cheng&#8217;s Brilliant Story on Why Patent Trolls are Difficult to Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patent trolls, any large company knows, are very annoying. They&#8217;re also disturbingly resilient.<\/p>\n<p>They go to great lengths to manipulate companies and courts, feeding off large companies&#8217; balance sheets with phony patents to suck millions from legitimately innovative firms. And far too often, they win.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Cheng, an attorney for Newegg, created a rare exception when in 2007 a patent troll\u2014which had already successfully got millions of dollars from Gap and Amazon\u2014sued the company and he decided to fight back. In <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2016\/09\/patents-are-bulls-t-says-neweggs-chief-legal-officer-lee-cheng\/?comments=1\">a fantastic interview hosted by Ars Technica<\/a>, the brilliant Cheng details at length his battle with the patent troll and how he scored a rare victory.<\/p>\n<p>His story, which makes for an excellent hour-long listen, will hopefully inspire others to not just settle with patent trolls (which, of course, is exactly what they always hope for).<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2015\/05\/04\/canada-cant-ignore-the-patent-troll-2015-05-04<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patent trolls, any large company knows, are very annoying. They&#8217;re also disturbingly resilient. They go to great lengths to manipulate companies and courts, feeding off large companies&#8217; balance sheets with phony patents to suck millions from legitimately innovative firms. And far too often, they win. Lee Cheng, an attorney for Newegg, created a rare exception [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":73070,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-73056","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/73056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/73056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/73070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73056"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=73056"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=73056"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=73056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}