When Patents Attack--Article on Patent Trolls from NPR.com
 

It sounds like Acacia's m.o. is now a business model for many other companies: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/...patents-attack

Great Article. Thanks! :thumbsup

Are there any petitions in the US to stop SW patents like the ones in the EU?

http://petition.stopsoftwarepatents.eu/591002786718/

http://webshop.ffii.org/

Interesting, thanks.

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bunch of fucking leeches:2 cents:
"Many patents are so broad, engineers say, that everyone's guilty of infringement. This causes huge problems for almost anyone trying to start or grow a business on the Internet."

"We're at a point in the state of intellectual property where existing patents probably cover every behavior that's happening on the Internet or our mobile phones today," says Chris Sacca, the venture capitalist. "