Professor Blames Patent Suits for Hurting Investments

A new paper from MIT’s Sloan Business school finds that hyperactive patent litigators robbed the tech industry of billions in investment dollars. “[Venture capital] investment would have been at least $8.1 billion higher over the course of five years but for litigation brought by frequent patent litigators,” professor of marketing Catherine Tucker wrote in the paper.

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