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CSIRO v. Buffalo Tech. : A Permanent Injunction Trump Card for Patent Trolls?

By Andrew N. Stein
August 29, 2007

The recent CSIRO v. Buffalo Technology, Inc. case just might have been the trump card for which a traditional patent troll was waiting so that it could finally visit the promised land of a permanent injunction. 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 43832 (E.D. Tex. Jun. 15, 2007). Unfortunately for the trolls, however, the impact of this opinion will not be as far reaching and applicable to their business model as they might hope.

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