Legal Opinion
Taurus IP, LLC v. Daimlerchrysler Corp.
District Court, W.D. Wisconsin
Decided October 15, 2007No. 07-C-158-CPublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION and ORDER
BARBARA B. CRABB, District Judge.
Plaintiff Taurus IP and third party defendants Orion IP, Plutus IP, Plutus IP Wisconsin and Constellation IP are limited liability companies known as nonpracticing entities, or NPEs. See, e.g., Jennifer Kahaulelih Gregory, The Troll Next Door, 6 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 292 (Winter 2007); Blackberries and Barnyard: Patent Trolls and the Perils of Innovation, 82 Notre Dame L.Rev. 1809, 1810 n. 3 (June 2007). They do not manufacture products, but instead hold licenses to numerous patents, which they license and enforce against alleged…
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