Ultimately, their cooperation benefited Siemens since it could reduce duplication in the litigation and could obtain "credit" from U.S. authorities for cooperating in the German case.
Many policy makers have already recognized the need to address this problem and we call on others to join them as this case clearly highlights the significant need for continuing policy reform to help reduce the amount of resources wasted on unwarranted patent litigation.
Audit firms finally began to reduce the pressure on clients that reached a peak in 2006 because of their own litigation anxiety when Auditing Standard 5 was enacted in 2007.