Week 5 EOC: Patent Troubles

The news in this patent claim article I just read is stating about how companys are noticing more and more unlawful patent products. They are contacting suppliers of these products to make sure all of your products are up to date. One quote I got from this article was about how "companies are now spending alot of time investigating this, even the ones who havent been sued. It has captured the attention of a large cross section of corporate america." Reasoning behind paying so much attention to making sure there patents are valid is because they dont want to get sued either. They are scared that if it is found out that the patents have experation dates that they will be sued and even shut down. Although some of the cases have recently settles due to the fact that these companies dont want to pay the legal fees and court fees. In this article a lawyer and his wife trekked to retail stores and found many faulsly marked products on the shelves. They filed lawsuits against many companies and they also filed lawsuits against false advertising claims. There are so many false advertising claims in every day life. I witness them all the time. In my opinion Im sure that its hard looking and searching for products in stores from companies that have the wrong product dates on them. I also feel that its more than likly a huge hassel and waste of time but, if these companies dont enforce it than that company can result in getting sued or having their store shut down, this goes for false advertisment as well. I am sure that the manufactuers of these consumer products are on there game about this now and are more aware of checking the status of patents and making sure that their products are all  up to date. I think that its a good thing that these lawyers and companies are being more causous of this because I would hate to go buy some toothpaste from the store and in reality it be out dated. Also with the false advertisments. Somebody really needs to fix this, as I said I see it everywhere and to me its not fair as a customer its like were being lied to.