This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, we enter the patent litigation world for a conversation about gaming patent litigation. For too long, popular sentiment has been that patent owners are bad actors simply because they are patent owners. A more nuanced but still grossly overbroad view is that patent owners are not per se bad actors, but if you are a patent owner who has the audacity to enforce a patent against an alleged infringer then you are most definitely a bad actor. Obviously, just being a patent owner does not make one a bad actor, and neither does enforcing a patent against an alleged infringer. But this patent troll narrative has been quite successful
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