{"id":3062,"date":"2018-02-27T13:37:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T18:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2018-02-27T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T18:38:04","slug":"patent-trolls-target-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2018\/02\/27\/patent-trolls-target-small-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Patent Trolls Target Small Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/minda-zetlin\/patent-trolls-target-small-businesses-with-lawsuit-threats-heres-how-one-startup-fought-back.html\">This<\/a> is an interesting article detailing how intellectual property laws are sometimes abused to the detriment of small businesses. So-called &#8220;patent trolls&#8221; have been targeting small businesses with bogus claims in hopes of a quick settlement. Unfortunately, most small businesses do not have the resources to deal with such claims, so they simply pay. Luckily, organizations like the\u00a0Electronic Frontier Foundation are trying to spread awareness about these &#8220;patent trolls&#8221; in order to aid small businesses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting article detailing how intellectual property laws are sometimes abused to the detriment of small businesses. So-called &#8220;patent trolls&#8221; have been targeting small businesses with bogus claims in hopes of a quick settlement. Unfortunately, most small businesses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2018\/02\/27\/patent-trolls-target-small-businesses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2868,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3067,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}