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Patent trolls

“Patent Trolls” Cost Productive Companies $29 Billion in 2011, Stall Innovation, and Hurt Small Businesses

by Stephan Kinsella on July 1, 2012

“Defensive Patent License” created to protect innovators from trolls; probably won’t work

by Stephan Kinsella on June 12, 2012

Washington Post on Patent Trolls, Software Patents, and Patent Reform

by Stephan Kinsella on May 8, 2012

Patent Trolls Are Preferable to “Practicing Entities”

by Stephan Kinsella on May 2, 2012

HuffPo: Patent Trolls Are Killing People — Literally

by Stephan Kinsella on April 18, 2012

Slate’s Farhad Manjoo: Use Crowdsourcing to Improve Patents and Kill Patent Trolls

by Stephan Kinsella on February 29, 2012

Patent troll blog: The Patent Examiner

by Stephan Kinsella on September 28, 2011

Patent Trolls Cost The Economy Half A Trillion Dollars since 1990

by Stephan Kinsella on September 20, 2011

Ayn Rand on Patent Trolls

by Stephan Kinsella on August 29, 2011

Dispatch from the Open Science Summit: Citizen Science, Microfinanced Research, Patent Trolls, and Pharma Prizes

by Stephan Kinsella on August 29, 2011

Paul Allen’s Patent Suit Against Google, Apple, More Dismissed

by Stephan Kinsella on December 13, 2010

Patent Trolling in Action: Big Patent Firm Sues Nine Tech Firms

by Stephan Kinsella on December 8, 2010

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