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Is Australia's CSIRO a Patent Troll?
schliz writes "Australian tech publication iTnews is defining 'patent trolls' as those who claim rights to an invention without commercializing it, and notes that government research organization CSIRO could come under that definition. The CSIRO in April reached a $220 million settlement over three U.S. telcos' usage of WLAN that it invented in the early 1990s. Critics have argued that the CSIRO had failed to contribute to the world's first wifi 802.11 standard, failed to commercialize the wifi chip through its spin-off, Radiata, and chose to wage its campaign in the Eastern District courts of Texas, a location favored by more notorious patent trolls."
Dingo dongers. Some companies are good at R&D, some at mass production. It's perfectly valid to specialise in one or the other.
Is an architect a troll if he doesn't dig his own foundations? Article's a bag of arse, mate.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
1 "bag of arse" = How many "Library of Congresses" . . . ?
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
The answer is patently no.