IV: Don't Mind Our 2000 Shell Companies, That's Totally Normal

Re:IV: Don't Mind Our 2000 Shell Companies, That's Totally N... by NelsonMinar on Friday December 21, 2012 @11:16AM (#4953230)

I continue to hold out this vain hope that Intellectual Ventures is an elaborate satire, an effort by some smart technologists to demonstrate how broken the US patent system is by exploiting it in such a comically villainous fashion.

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Re:IV: Don't Mind Our 2000 Shell Companies, That's Totally N... by rhizome on Friday December 21, 2012 @12:28PM (#4953581)

Yeah, I've thought that they're trying to be a patent martyr too, that they're using every trick that can be used in hopes that eventually it brings about change. Smart people, long game, etc. However, the fact remains that engaging in the bad behavior is...bad.

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Re:IV: Don't Mind Our 2000 Shell Companies, That's Totally N... by CamperBob2 on Friday December 21, 2012 @06:29PM (#4955076)

The Westboro Baptist Church of patent trolls, in other words.

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