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US GAO 2013 report on patent litigation

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The authors of the 2013 report on Assessing Factors That Affect Patent Infringement Litigation Could Help Improve Patent Quality, published by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), studied patent litigation in the US from 2000-2010. Most coverage of this report focussed on patent trolls, with patent lawyers saying the report proves trolls aren't a problem, and non-lawyers saying it proves the opposite. But there are also important observations specifically about software patents.

As Michael Meurer puts it, "The GAO study told us there's a serious problem with software patents."[1]

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