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Patent trolling is a highly effective business model, but it has to make no sense in order to work.
by ZeSmith 15y ago
Patent trolling is a highly effective business model, but it has to make no sense in order to work.
- stcredzero 15y agoPatent trolling...it has to make no sense in order to work. No, it just has to make no sense in order to make tech news. Otherwise, it would be something like: "NEWSFLASH! Perfectly sensible licensing deal!"
- mattdeboard 15y agoIf it's perfectly reasonable, then I'd say it's not trolling.
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- stcredzero 15y agoSo then, "Patent trolling, it has to be unreasonable to exist." This shows differences in generational understanding of words. "Trolling" in this case predates the widespread use with regards to Internet behavior and actually refers to fishing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_(fishing) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_(fishing) Just as trolling attempts to mimic a real school of fish, patent trolling attempts to mimic the legitimate licensing of productive patents. The reasonableness of the "bait" is entirely up to those doing the trolling. (And is largely subjective, which perhaps highlights a fundamental weakness of the current patent system.)