Ronald Riley
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"Ronald "Ron" Riley" is a retired field hockey striker from Australia, who twice won the silver medal with the Men's National Team, first at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and then eight years later, at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He was educated at the St. Joseph's College, Nainital

in India.

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In fact, there is a 60% chance that one or more of the patents will be reaffirmed.

That increased the cost of re-examination by at least an order of magnitude.

Even if the patent is bad, it still has value if you can get someone to pay you to go away.

He was kicking their butts. He had this huge litigation hammer hanging over their head. They knew he would chew them up and spit them out if they didn't ante up.

Those companies get sued for their disreputable conduct, lose in a court of law on the merits of a case, and then try to paint their victims as the abusers. Their conduct is, to put it mildly, egregious, and includes abusing the process of law to bankrupt the people whose property they steal ... and using political influence to try and sway the courts and to definitely sway the patent office.