According to Google senior patent counsel Suzanne Michel, sixty percent of patent lawsuits are now filed by such companies.

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Chairing the meeting was Casey Tegreene, an electrical engineer with a law degree, who is the chief patent counsel for I.

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Corbis first entered into an agreement with Infoflows around 2005, feeding information it gleaned from that relationship to an outside patent counsel, according to court documents.

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Given the potential strategic benefits that stem from patent reexamination, Itri considers it wise to institute corporate processes with the advice of outside counsel in order to determine whether patent reexamination is appropriate.

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