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Landmark Technology, a patent troll that has spent 20 years threatening and suing small businesses over bogus patents, and received EFF’s Stupid Patent of the Month award in 2019, has been sued by the State of Washington.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a lawsuit claiming that Landmark Technology has violated the state’s Patent Troll Protection Act, which bans “bad faith” assertions of patent infringement. Following a widespread campaign of patent demand letters, more than 30 states passed some kind of law placing limits on bad-faith patent assertions.
These laws face an uphill battle to be enforced. First of all, the Constitution places important limits on the government’s ability to penalize the act of seeking legal redress. Second, the Federal Circuit has specifically held that a high bar of bad faith must be established for laws that would penalize patent assertion.
Gov. Jay Inslee on Friday directed the state attorney general's office to investigate Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer for potential criminal violations stemming from the sheriff's interaction with a Black newspaper carrier three months ago. In a letter to the Criminal Justice Division of Attorney General Bob Ferguson's office, Inslee said he was compelled to act.