Sayegh, Sabetian: Act to stop ‘judicial hellholes’

The following is commentary by Emil Sayegh, president and CEO of Codero Hosting in Austin, and Arvand Sabetian, CEO, and founder of Arvixe LLC in California.

“Judicial Hellholes” is the name of a recent annual report from the American Tort Reform Association, and once again Texas finds itself named to the list and getting this (unwanted) attention — thanks to the preying acts of “patent trolls.”

Patent trolls (or Patent Assertion Entities, in legal-speak) are groups that bring frivolous lawsuits against their targets, despite the fact they themselves don’t manufacture or supply the patent they are targeting.

Read the entire op-ed published in the Longview News-Journal.