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State anti-troll laws, district court local rules, fill void left by Congress

By Melissa Ritti ( January 9, 2025, 16:11 GMT | Comment) -- Washington’s attorney general, who oversaw the passage of one of the nation’s first anti-troll laws, this week won leave to amend his office’s first complaint under the statute — a 2021 lawsuit against a North Carolina patent-assertion entity, or PAE. Bob Ferguson got the go-ahead to add two individual defendants who are accused of locating and threatening small businesses with bogus allegations of patent infringement. With Congress seemingly unable to agree on whether PAEs need policing, the job will continue to fall to states and proactive federal judges for the foreseeable future.Potentially rivaling Delaware as the state with the least friendly turf for patent-assertion entities, or PAEs, the state of Washington won permission Tuesday to add two individual defendants to an action under the Washington Patent Troll Prevention Act, or PTPA....

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