Patent trolls are targeting printers with lawsuits alleging patent infringement for using common technologies.

By Bob Neubauer

Patent trolls seem to have gone into overdrive the past couple years. The New York Times says they are behind more than half of the 4,000 patent infringement lawsuits filed in the United States last year. President Obama recently took a stand against them by ordering the patent office to tighten scrutiny of overly broad patent claims and requiring patent holders to reveal their ties to other companies, among other things.

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.

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