Apple closing two stores in Texas due to Patent Trolls

Apple will be shutting down two of its brick and mortar stores in Eastern Texas to avoid Patient Troll lawsuits.  The company wants to avoid costly lawsuits that could go up into the millions of dollars and months in court.

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The two stores that will be closing are the Apple Willow Bend store in Plano and the Apple Stonebriar store in Frisco are both closing on April 12th, 2019.

However, Apple is planning to open a new store at the Galleria Dallas shopping mall just outside of the Eastern District border to continue to have a retail presence in the area sometime soon.

Is this the first of many store closings?  Stay tuned to find out.

So, what is a Patient Troll:

In international law and business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts to enforce patent rights against accused infringers far beyond the patent’s actual value or contribution to the prior art, often through hardball legal tactics. Wikipedia

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