Accused ‘Patent Troll’ Defendants Settle With Washington State

The state of Washington reached a $3 million settlement with a company it had accused of violating a “patent troll” law, with all but $95,000 of that amount suspended.

Landmark Technology A LLC and company officials Raymond Mercado and Melody Camp agreed to the payment as part of a proposed consent decree filed jointly with the state’s attorney general in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington Monday. The state had accused Mercado and Camp of taking part in a scheme where they were paid $20,000 a month to “blanket thousands of targets with mail-merged form demand ...