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The party alleging patent infringement, referred to as the plaintiff, must include in the initial complaint (unless the information is not reasonably accessible to such party):
→Pleading Requirements
===Pleading Requirements===
In efforts to diminish the Patent Troll threat, the Innovation Act has heightened pleading requirements for parties filing for patent infringement. As of December 2015, Form 18, the form previously used to submit generalized patent infringement claims <ref name="patentlyo18" />, was eliminated in order to reduce patent litigation, especially involving Patent Trolls or Non-Practicing Entities.<ref name="nationallawreview" /> The act would go further in reducing generalized complaints and eliminating loopholes by requiring (with exceptions) the plaintiff to submit infringement charts with the initial complaint.<ref name="innovationactsummary" /> The charts would include:
*Identification of each patent allegedly infringed
*All claims (heart of the patent, defines the limits of exactly what the patent does) necessary to produce the identification of each process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter (accused instrumentalities) that infringe the patent
*Authority of the party to assert each patent
TL;DR If you believe your patent has been infringed on, you must write in your initial complaint letter VERY SPECIFIC information regarding exactly which parts of your patents have been violated and by what model/device.
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