That destroys startups.
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In addition to the practice of multiple petitioners challenging a single patent, well-funded large corporations, especially tech companies, also discovered the ability of leveraging IPRs to overwhelm and destroy the portfolios of smaller competitors who are in no way malicious patent assertion entities. In the name of defending their own patents, it appears that large companies have been sinisterly neutralizing competitors’ intellectual property. For example, in one case study, Apple once filed twelve IPR petitions against a North Carolina–based startup, Valencell, after a failed attempt to collaborate with the startup on an Apple Watch technology.95 Although Valencell is only one case in point, Apple’s treatment of its competitors reflects an industry wide mindset: tech companies with well resourced legal departments are willing to counterattack innovators so aggressively as to threaten the smaller innovative entities’ livelihood, forcing them to settle or give up their enforcement rights altogether in district courts.