Jun 23, 2011 – Lawsuits over patents have become big business. How big?

by Mathew Honan

Jul 26, 2011 – After slapping Google and PayPal with patent lawsuits, patent troll Purple Leaf is going after Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of .

Mar 18, 2006 – Forgent Networks Inc. and other companies with similar strategies — often called “patent trolling” by critics — amass intellectual property .

Sep 28, 2011 – Samsung has joined the long line of Android Linux companies signing patent deals with Microsoft. But what are they really paying for?

Jan 2, 2011 – An anonymous reader writes "It's all or nothing over at IBM as the company goes for the gold and files the patent troll patent. Forget the .

A “Patent Troll” is someone who tries to make money from a patent that they are not practicing. Is this wrong? Learn about the myth of the Patent Troll and .

Aug 4, 2011 – Patent Trolls Sitting Under The UX Bridge : How the U.S. patent system may affect your everyday UX work. by Andy Williams. COMMENT 5 .

by Brian Heater

May 27, 2011 – You've all probably heard bits and pieces of news about a company called Lodsys in the last couple of weeks, (they've been "patent trolling" .

Sep 14, 2011 – For some time now, so-called patent trolls have aggressively targeted the biggest tech companies in the world. Now, they seem to be setting .

by Tim Carmody

Patent troll is a pejorative term used for a person or company that enforces its patents against one or more alleged infringers in a manner considered by the .

Mar 7, 2011 – Patent trolls, beware - the Federal Trade Commission is watching. The agency today released a 300-page report examining the effect that .

Aug 8, 2011 – A ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is being seen as a victory against "patent trolls," companies that acquire intellectual .

A patent troll is a patent holder who uses patents in a way that is damaging to the supposed purpose of the patent system, encouraging new inventions and the .

Instead of looking for clients, litigator Raymond Niro looks for patents, holding the dubious distinction of being the first patent troll. In 2001 Intel assistant GC .

Sep 28, 2011 – The biotechnology industry has had its share of woes, but so far 'patent trolls' have not numbered among them. These companies, which profit .

Jul 22, 2011 – Laura and Alex continue their story about Intellectual Ventures and the practice of patent trolling. They learn why the buying and selling of .

Feb 1, 2010 – Innovation in the U.S. frequently fails to reward inventors. So-called patent trolls are evening the score.

Jul 11, 2011 – In this environment, brandishing invalid patents can be a good business strategy. This behavior, called “patent trolling,” gets a lot of attention .

Aug 9, 2011 – Written by Colleen V. Chien The patent system has received a lot of attention recently, and not the good kind. Recent pieces have called patent .

Jul 24, 2011 – I love This American Life's investigation into patent troll Nathan Myhrvold and his company Intellectual Ventures.

May 13, 2011 – I hope Apple steps in and eviscerates the patent troll. Rating: 15 Positives / 0 Negatives. Avatar. Full of Win. 23 weeks ago. Now these are trolls. .

Jul 28, 2011 – As some querulous (you know who you are) H&R readers know, I have argued granting patents to inventors has helped speed up .

Mar 30, 2009 – RPX hopes to profit by buying patents. But unlike other intellectual property firms, its plan is never to sue companies that infringe on the patents .

Jul 24, 2011 – The US patent system is open to abuse by companies that don't do innovation and sue companies that do.

By creating market liquidity, "trolls" provide a valuable service to inventors.

NPEs in legal parlance—more commonly referred to as “patent trolls”—derive or plan to derive all or most of their revenue from the enforcement of patents. .

Aug 20, 2011 – And “patent trolls”? They do much the same thing, nosing around patent systems and buying up intellectual property, often of questionable .

Aug 26, 2011 – Continue to watch this space for additional resources for app developers and other innovators who have been the target of patent trolls. As you .

Aug 10, 2011 – The patent troll realized we were going to fight them instead of settle, so they asked for our best offer. I said how about you get nothing and drop .

Oct 7, 2011 – Critics call Intellectual Ventures, which has thousands of patents but no products of its own, the world's largest patent troll. On Thursday, it sued .

by Charles Arthur

Sep 5, 2011 – Professor Michael Risch of the Villanova University School of Law is a prolific scholar who is fascinated by patent trolls. Given his interest in this .

Sep 30, 2011 – Bessen has just recently published a study of "patent trolls", the organizations that buy up as many (preferably broadly worded) patents as they .

Jul 31, 2011 – A Patent Troll is a pejorative term used for a person or company that enforces its patents against one or more alleged infringers in a manner .

May 14, 2011 – Patent Troll (boingboing.net). submitted 14 minutes ago by eezma · comment; sharecancel. loading. no comments (yet). sorted by: .

Aug 13, 2003 – (PAT.unt trohl) n. A company that purchases a patent, often from a bankrupt firm, and then sues another company by claiming that one of its .

Sep 21, 2011 – Patent troll lawsuits have cost technology firms $500 billion in lost wealth since 1990, but little was transferred to small inventors the suits were .

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Jul 23, 2011 – Lodsys is becoming a real pain in the neck for App Developers and for those who rely on App Developers. Patent infringement lawsuits .

by Joe Wilcox

Aug 8, 2011 – Patent Trolls Come in All Shapes and Sizes. By Ben Popper 8/08 8:13am. Tweet. Pleasure to meet ya' - image by David Saracino .

Aug 19, 2011 – Trolls, as any three-year-old can tell you, lurk underneath structures they didn't build and pop up at unexpected moments to get in the way and .

Oct 14, 2011 – The Motley Fool - Real trolls hide under bridges and behind bulletproof countersuit defenses. TiVo does neither.

Sep 20, 2011 – Last month, Google stepped up to defend Android coders against notorious patent troll Lodsys. Apple fought the company a few months earlier .

Jul 22, 2011 – Patent Troll Nathan Myhrvold Declares Patent Trolling To Be A Good Thing. from the i'm-here-to-justify-my-existence dept. In what is a hugely .

Patent Troll - Definition of Patent Troll on Investopedia - A derogatory term used to describe people or companies that misuse patents as a business strategy.

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