Automotive industry tries to put the brakes on NPEs

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Automotive industry tries to put the brakes on NPEs

July 01 2015
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Following a near-doubling of patent litigation in the automotive industry in the past three years, car makers are hitting back at NPEs through PTAB petitions and defensive patent aggregators such as Unified Patents

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