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Aging Patents Get New Life From Speculative Infringement Claims
- Many lawsuits are over patents that have expired or will soon
- Patents from the dot-com bust era now the subect of suits
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The 1990s may be over but patents from that era live on.
U.S. courts are seeing a rash of lawsuits involving old and sometimes expired patents as companies try to squeeze the last bit of profits from their 20-year-old inventions.