Patent attorney Barry Chapin of Chapin Intellectual Property Law LLC in Westborough, Massachusetts, wrote this editorial in the Worcester Business Journal of Worcester, Mass. Chapin argues that changing the patent code to punish so-called "patent trolls" will have an adverse, perhaps even crippling, effect on independent inventors who patent their inventions but lack the money to produce them and thus license their patents to larger companies.

"The ability to think up an invention, patent it and subsequently make money off the idea is central to continued innovation," writes Chapin.

Read the full article on the WBJournal.com website.