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Re:Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit by pronoiac on Thursday August 25, 2022 @12:22AM (#32589442)
I think that Intellectual Ventures started out as a defense against patent trolls, but after gathering enough of a patent portfolio, they started playing offense in a way that looks like patent trolling.
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Re:Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit by staticautomatic on Thursday August 25, 2022 @01:09AM (#32589753)
The important thing to know is that they did so because the economics of defensive aggregation were insufficient to return capital to the investors.
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Re:Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit by jacquesm on Thursday August 25, 2022 @04:27AM (#32591099)
Which makes it even more disgusting. IV is what wrecked the reputation of a lot of people for me.
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