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<blockquote data-quote="dm4hire" data-source="post: 6085941" data-attributes="member: 14848"><p>Well I think that is were common sense part of the law comes into play. It's pretty easy to figure out who is suing for justifiable reasons and who is doing it for a money grab. My main point of frivolous is in regards to legal actions such as the company in Texas who's sole source of income these days is charging every other company in the U.S. and even parts of the rest of the world for patent and trademark infringement because they didn't properly protect themselves. The company files against the original company claiming that they have the patent or trademark right in order to get them to settle out of court and save money to insure that the product can be released. There are several companies that do this actually which is sad.</p><p></p><p>Also as presented in the proposal it would keep companies from trying to strong arm and use scare tactics such as what the RIAA did with suspected music downloaders. Granted that tactic came back to bite the RIAA in the popularity world, but it was still pretty scary to watch before they finally realized it wasn't winning them brownie points by going after every little person who downloaded music. Now the RIAA seems to be focusing only on those who are making the music available.</p><p></p><p>I agree that something does need to be done to make sure that legitimate complaints by the common person may continue and I think if anything the changing of the law would be aimed to affect only businesses and not the common citizen in this regard, by making a distinction between business and civil (injury).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dm4hire, post: 6085941, member: 14848"] Well I think that is were common sense part of the law comes into play. It's pretty easy to figure out who is suing for justifiable reasons and who is doing it for a money grab. My main point of frivolous is in regards to legal actions such as the company in Texas who's sole source of income these days is charging every other company in the U.S. and even parts of the rest of the world for patent and trademark infringement because they didn't properly protect themselves. The company files against the original company claiming that they have the patent or trademark right in order to get them to settle out of court and save money to insure that the product can be released. There are several companies that do this actually which is sad. Also as presented in the proposal it would keep companies from trying to strong arm and use scare tactics such as what the RIAA did with suspected music downloaders. Granted that tactic came back to bite the RIAA in the popularity world, but it was still pretty scary to watch before they finally realized it wasn't winning them brownie points by going after every little person who downloaded music. Now the RIAA seems to be focusing only on those who are making the music available. I agree that something does need to be done to make sure that legitimate complaints by the common person may continue and I think if anything the changing of the law would be aimed to affect only businesses and not the common citizen in this regard, by making a distinction between business and civil (injury). [/QUOTE]
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