T-Mobile VP wants more antitrust tools against patent trolls

Charles McConnell

30 January 2018

Credit: iStock/Tak Yeung

The vice president for intellectual property and antitrust at T-Mobile last week slammed patent assertion entities and called for the antitrust laws to help provide recourse against assertions of bad patents.

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Charles McConnell

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