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Well, law firms commonly do some amount of pro bono work as a public service and reputation builder. I'd be interested to see a firm or two donate legal support to smaller companies fighting trolls - it'd be a show of good faith and might immediately knock out low-powered trolls.

Newegg has showed what happens when these cases actually get fought, and that's something a firm could offer to build popularity and support.




Helping a for-profit company avoid paying licensing fees hardly qualifies as pro bono work.


How about if they just did the legal work to file for USPTO reexamination to invalidate the patents?




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