Patents and IPR

Verizon: time to kick out the patent trolls

Nov 1, 2013

Randy Milch, EVP of Public Policy and General Counsel at Verizon, talks to the TIA about Verizon's broader role on the Internet and in society. One of Randy's bugbears is patent trolling which he calls an innovation tax. "A patent is a government grant with a public purpose," he says. It's time to get back to those first principles.

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