Near the end of that period Washington's army suffered brutal cold at Valley Forge (1777), and Napoleon's, a frigid retreat from Russia (1812).

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After Detkin came aboard, he started working his contacts in Silicon Valley, cold-calling law firms, licensing agencies and patent agents to identify bankrupt or distressed clients who were interested in selling patent portfolios.

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Then it was left out in the cold, as Silicon Valley created the microchip revolution and just about all the other excitement of the 1980s and 1990s, down to the dot-com binge.

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