We get fascinating social experiments like the Mass Effect 3 debate, and we get trolls.
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It would ask the Patent and Trademark Office to reexamine (and revoke) patents asserted by patent trolls.
Cross-licensing giants naturally view NPEs that help inventors as a threat, perhaps an even greater threat than trolls.
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According to lore, Bill Gates asked Myhrvold to set up IV to help defend Microsoft from patent trolls.
Since the United States Patent Office grants patents freely and courts enforce them zealously, every inventive company lives in fear of trolls.
The lore at Intellectual Ventures has it that Bill Gates asked Myhrvold to set up the company to help defend Microsoft from attacks from patent trolls.
The instance continued on, serving up a motley assortment of trolls.
The passage of the AIA drove down the number of defendants named in patent suits, but also drove up the number of suits filed by trolls.
Shannara, a series that started in 1977 with The Sword of Shannara, is about a post-apocalyptic Earth where much of humanity has mutated into dwarves, gnomes, and trolls.
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For years big technology companies that employed thousands of people, made and sold real products, and once in a while even exported actual American-made goods, had to accept being the fat targets of patent trolls.
But it also got money from big tech companies, which got both an equity stake in the fund and a license for certain patents so they would be less likely to be sued by patent trolls.
Samuels has been fighting the battle against dangerously broad patents for some time now, recently traveling to DC to support passage of the SHIELD Act (Saving High-tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes), a congressional bill that would impose heavy fines against so-called patent trolls.
By applying some of these tactics, just in reverse, companies may be able to better manage the threats trolls pose.
There are patent trolls everywhere.
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I'd venture to guess that 100 percent of our spammers and trolls do so.
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Bloggers are as motivated by seeing those numbers soar as are the knights of Camelot and the trolls of Reddit.
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Wired reports that the US government has launched a new initiative to deliberately frustrate frequenters of known extremist internet forums in the way that only trolls know how.
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But a free and open legal system like ours is bound to be subject to a certain number of abusive holdup suits, and not just by patent trolls, but also by product liability trolls, medical malpractice trolls, and shareholder fraud trolls as well.
This makes sense, since the trolls were forced to file separate suits, rather than a single, combined lawsuit. 2012 statistics show that trolls brought the majority of patent lawsuits filed in the U.S., 61% compared to only 45% in 2011.
The caps lock key has been replaced with a search button, which will enrage internet trolls and screenwriters alike.
In my experience with youtube, the copyright trolls are absolutely everywhere.
If the Comment were in response to one posted by another reader, I would permanently delete it because I police this blog and will not tolerate trolls or personal attacks.
C. by lobbying for patent reform, seemed helpless as the patent trolls morphed into powerful hedge funds.
This is why trolls do what they do.
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It came as no surprise to me that I would find the traits of creative leaders in the characters in the film (I knew the book, of course), but I was pleased to see how beautifully rich the lessons of leadership could be when played out against a backdrop of Middle Earth where wolves and trolls wait at every turn.
However, after the enactment of the AIA, the number of patent cases filed by trolls against smaller companies increased significantly.
In a recent blog post, Google explains that -- along with its collaborators -- it has submitted comments to the aforementioned agencies, detailing the impact that "patent trolls" have on the economy.
This version by British playwright David Edgar, from a literal translation by Desiree Kongered McDougall, has modernized and changed Ibsen's language, removing many references to the inner "demons and trolls" that plague the architect.
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