Your comments throughout this thread strike me as particularly off base. Both I and Gene Quinn agree that patent trolls are bad, but think that the problem has been exaggerated in the media. That doesn't make me a shill. I'm happy to see trolls defeated in court. And I don't work for a patent troll, or work for the highest bidder. (First job I took after quitting the USPTO was in academia and paid significantly less than the USPTO.) As I said in other comments, I haven't worked in patents since leaving the USPTO.