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>Reforms on how damages are calculated. If you neither sell a product nor license IP to third parties, there is no way you're losing any revenue from an infringement. You should not be awarded even "reasonable royalty" damages if you wouldn't have received any royalties in any case.

So threaten to sue a small company that doesn't want to pay for lawyers, and settle for a royalty agreement. Now you've licensed your IP to a third party, and you can sue someone else for greater damages.



Still an improvement over the current situation.


It creates a perverse incentive to threaten businesses with less ability to defend themselves.




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