Valve Corp., the developer behind popular online gaming platform Steam, won its lawsuit against a prolific inventor and his affiliated entities, brought under a Washington state law meant to combat ...

Valve just scored a historic win against a prolific patent troll — and even got $152K out of it.

And possibly an even bigger win for those fighting against patent trolls.

The reported damages were around $152,000, but it’s especially rare because Washington’s anti-patent troll law had rarely faced a full jury trial. Valve pushed the case through and secured a verdict ...

“The opinion seems to leave the extraordinary writ of mandamus—which comes with an extremely deferential standard of review—as the only possible mechanism for reviewing a bond ordered under a state ...

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Recent media attention has brought the term "patent troll" out of the obscure patent attorney lexicon and into the public realm of discussion. The increased debate surrounding the so-called abusive ...