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American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) - Patent Registry Scams; Australian Patent Office - Warning!Unsolicited IP Services; Belgian Patent Office - Warning to inventors about fraudulent registration services, in (in Dutch) or (in French) (with link to a Decision of January 14, 2005 of a Belgian Appeal Court (Brussels, R.G. 2003/AR/2192 and 2003/AR/2356) (pdf) - in French)
The oldest reference to the origin of scam letters could be found at the Spanish Prisoner scam. [1] This scam dates back to the 1580s, where the fictitious prisoner would promise to share non-existent treasure with the person who would send him money to bribe the guards.
The company was shut down by the FTC in March 2017. According to the FTC, "consumers paid Scott J Cooper and his companies, World Patent Marketing Inc. thousands of dollars to patent and market their inventions based on bogus 'success stories' and testimonials promoted by the defendants.
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Designing around a patent can sometimes be a way to avoid infringing it. Companies or individuals who infringe on intellectual property rights produce counterfeit or pirated products and services. [3] An example of a counterfeit product is if a vendor were to place a well-known logo on a piece of clothing that said company did not produce.
But a growing share of the lawsuits [6] is coming from non-practicing entities (NPEs) – also called patent trolls – which acquire patents for the sole purpose of licensing and asserting their patent rights. In fact, NPE litigation grew from 2.6 percent of filed cases in 2000 to 16.6 percent of filed cases in 2007.
The annual fee depends on company revenues, but ranges from $1,500 to $20,000 per year (about the price of a single patent application). [11] On September 1, 2016 LOT announced that it would waive annual membership fees until March 1, 2017 for companies with less than $5 million in annual revenues. [ 12 ]
This examination was followed by another announcement of the launch of three studies regarding patents held by the patent-licensing company Lodsys. These patents were involved in patent-infringement claims against several application-development companies, as well as larger companies including Sam's Club , Best Western , Adidas , and Best Buy .