Battling the Patent Trolls

opus writes "There's an interesting series of articles at law.com on the current situation in patent law, which has become "a money-minting machine for a few patent holders". Includes an article on Peter Detkin, counsel at Intel, who spends much of his time battling patent infringement claims against Intel, and who coined the term "patent troll". Apparently it's not just the geeks who are unhappy with the current state of affairs in patent law."

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Don't kid yourself, man

[The Ultimate Badass]

I was talking to a lawyer friend of mine today, and from what she tells me, 200,000 dollar payouts are pretty scarce. After she finished law school, she was left with two choices, basically. See, like most law students, she had spent her entire stint at university engaged in an orgiastic romp through the bedrooms of half the students and staff in the faculty. Law students are basically immoral, and will drop their panties at the mention of coitus. I fucken kid you not. I unfortunately missed out on those ribald years of her life, as I did not know her then. Her friends describe her as having been a total slut, and a good fucken lay to boot. I know for a fact that she was not known for wearing panties, but from what I hear, I'm surprised she bothered with skirts. This chick spent all of her college years on all fours giving head to professors while post grads gave it to her dog style. Know what I mean?

Anyway, despite her willingness to make accommodations wherever necessary, she still only managed to scrape through with a B average, since you can't make it to class when you're washing the prof's cum out of your hair every second morning. So her options were, basically, go into shitty ACLU do-gooder jobs which don't pay, and bring you constantly into contact with the worst suburban losers you can imagine. I mean, ACLU work is fucken bullshit. You spend more effort trying not to laugh in the faces of your idiot clients than you do defending them. Fuck that.

Her other option was to suck the cocks of the HR department of every half decent law firm in the city. Let's just say that's a lot of fucken dick. It's a fucken dick-suck marathon, you know what I mean? Fucken right. But she managed to get hired by this patent lawyer who was horny as a fucken goat mainlining viagra. This was a situation unlike anything she had previously faced. This fucken priapic beast of a shyster hires her, and almost goes out of business, because he doesn't have the sense to stop fucking this dumb slut in time to actually serve his clients' interests. Fucken A, man. So now she's spending half her time bent over his desk getting a 55 year old coital pounding. The other half, she's on her knees "placating" irate clients orally.

Holy Fucken Jesus.

So I was having lunch with her today, and I casually ask if she bothered to wipe the cum off her chin before she came to see me. This fucken bitch hits the ceiling! I couldn't fucken believe it. Bitch spends all day giving head to wizened old cock, but one mildly derisive comment about her lifestyle and she's all over me about respect. Fucken cunt.

So that's that, I say to myself. I've got no more use for someone who's attitudes are that fucken twisted. You know how lawyers are, anyway. It's worse to say something than to do it. I figure you don't need to regret not having become one. You probably don't have the appetite for cock, let alone the stomach for cum. When I bade her farewell today, this bitch was trying to develop at taste for cunt as well. Why else would she order the fucken lobster, eh?

Poor Intel

[Djinh]

Poor Intel! my heart bleeds! Something must be done to protect our beloved Intel from these trolls!!!

Can't we charge them under the DMCA or something?