Samuel F. Ernst (Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law) has posted Trolls or Toll-Takers: Do Intellectual Property Non-Practicing Entities Add Value to Society? (Chapman Law Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2015) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
There are few areas of patent law more contentious than the dispute over the social utility of “non-practicing entities,” or (if you will excuse the expression) “patent trolls.” Whether non-practicing entities add value to society is a topic of much debate, and the focus of the 2015 Chapman Law Review Symposium.
