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dreamdu5t on Sept 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Patent Trolls: Make Them Pay

Patents ARE the problem... not some vague notion of a poor implementation of them.

It will still be profitable to troll for patents even with the SHEILD act. The problem is the very idea of owning information/process.

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