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World's Largest Patent Troll Fires First Salvo

Posted by kdawson on from the sleeping-under-the-world's-largest-bridge dept.

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Yesterday the biggest software patent troll of all finally woke from its slumbers: Intellectual Ventures filed patent infringement complaints in the US District Court of Delaware against companies in the software security, DRAM and Flash memory, and field-programmable gate array industries. Intellectual Ventures was co-founded by Microsoft's former CTO Nathan Myhrvold, with others from Intel and a Seattle-based law firm." We discussed IV's potential for patent trollery last spring.

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  1. Re:swine... by noidentity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, the corruption of capitalism with imaginary property is why these things are in the toilet. It's an artificial monopoly over everyone's (non-imaginary) property.

  2. Re:Neal Stephenson has a hand in this by theodicey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I once knew someone who was naive enough to confuse a patent troll operation with a real Menlo Park skunkworks/invention lab.

    She was 22 years old and looking for a job; what's Stephenson's excuse?

  3. Just Like Copyright by bky1701 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Imaginary property like patents and copyright always consolidates power over information into the hands of the few. They do not protect the creators, they make ideas a commodity to be traded.

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    Great Intellect...