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Because we call them "patent trolls" but they aren't trolling. They do have legitimate (in the legal sense, not the technical) patents.
And they CAN (and have) make a big company pay in court for their perceived abuse of those patents.
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Because we call them "patent trolls" but they aren't trolling. They do have legitimate (in the legal sense, not the technical) patents.
And they CAN (and have) make a big company pay in court for their perceived abuse of those patents.