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Re:Full text: Apple Legal's letter to Lodsys by toadkick on Monday May 23, 2011 @04:04PM (#2577366)
They didn't, they licensed the patents from Intellectual Ventures years ago. Lodsys acquired the patents after the fact.
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Re:Full text: Apple Legal's letter to Lodsys by SwellJoe on Monday May 23, 2011 @07:25PM (#2578006)
Intellectual Ventures is also a patent troll. It's just higher profile and has people involved that had some level of existing respectability at some point in the past.
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