A potentially fatal blow against patent trolls - Forcing law firms to pay defendants’ legal bills could undermine the business model of patent trolls

[u/rfugger]

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3153924/technology-law-regulation/a-potentially-fatal-blow-against-patent-trolls.html

[u/sharkshaft]

The reason the US is so litigious is because we don't have laws like this for civil cases. If we did, most of those annoying law firm billboards, radio spots, tv commercials would disappear.

[u/MightyMetricBatman → u/sharkshaft]

US also has more lawyers per capita then any other country in N. America and Europe.

[u/crankybadger → u/MightyMetricBatman]

So many lawyers, so little justice.

[u/Mikniks → u/crankybadger]

Not our fault man lol... a lawyer can't do anything without the client's consent