Prof. Cotter Quoted in Reuters Article on Patent Damages Dispute

Professor Tom Cotter was quoted in a Reuters News Service article that discusses an ongoing patent damages dispute between Intellectual Ventures (IV) and two defendants, Symantec and TrendMicro. At issue is whether it is relevant that IV purchased the patents at issue for a sum that is much, much lower than what IV is now seeking in infringement damages. Cotter states that as an economic matter the damages could exceed the purchase price, and that if the damages were capped at the purchase price there would be "no point in being a patent assertion entity."