Intellectual Ventures started this way and now are supertrolls, RPX is refugees from there and *must* inevitably go the same way. A license to patent A is not a license to patent B, so this concept just plain won't work and RPX knows it. It's just plain deception - it's like paying off the mafia when everyone knows the tongs and yakuza are waiting on the step for their cut.
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Intellectual Ventures started this way and now are supertrolls, RPX is refugees from there and *must* inevitably go the same way. A license to patent A is not a license to patent B, so this concept just plain won't work and RPX knows it. It's just plain deception - it's like paying off the mafia when everyone knows the tongs and yakuza are waiting on the step for their cut.