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Re:Yahoo: Patent Sell-Off Isn’t a Fire Sale by kmiroslav on Friday June 10, 2016 @01:44PM (#11878283)
To some extent. I think they should only be transferred in the case of an acquisition of the company or if the buyer can show that their business is aligned with the patent being bought.

Such restrictions would kill the patent troll business overnight.

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Re:Yahoo: Patent Sell-Off Isn’t a Fire Sale by mkagenius on Friday June 10, 2016 @01:56PM (#11878405)
> Such restrictions would kill the patent troll business overnight.

That would be one solution. But the cause of the patent trolling is not the transferrable patents - its the human nature. There will always be some humans finding _some_ way to make money instead of thinking of doing the _right_ thing.

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