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I'm a little more generic on the definiiton of "troll" | 234 comments | Create New Account
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Only problem: Apple is a PRACTICING entity, so something a bit different is needed....
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 07 2012 @ 07:41 PM EST
It's definitely! Apple legal head honcho (Bruce Sewell) on a
Kamikaze mission :-)

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Define patent troll
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 07 2012 @ 08:17 PM EST
Just because non-practicing entitys are patent trolls doesn't mean the patent
abusing practicing entitys can't also be patent trolls. A tank is a vehicle,
that doesn't mean a car isn't a vehicle, or that a car is a tank. I think rather
then coming up with a new term for apple we should just expand the current one.

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Only problem: Apple is a PRACTICING entity, so something a bit different is needed....
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 07 2012 @ 09:09 PM EST
Either duck or grouse

Tufty

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Fine
Authored by: BJ on Wednesday, November 07 2012 @ 10:21 PM EST
Just don't get back to me when your gracious
goodwill towards Apple has expired.
I'll just mock you.


bjd



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How about "Patent Grinch"? (n/t)
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 07 2012 @ 10:56 PM EST
N/t

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Not true: Apple is suing over patents it does not use
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 03:57 AM EST
Assuming the claims that it's adding stylus stuff to the case
are correct.

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I'm a little more generic on the definiiton of "troll"
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 09 2012 @ 09:35 AM EST

Personally, I've never bought into the definition which says an entity has to be non-practicing to be a troll.

In fabled stories, a troll picks a bridge and sits by it in order to collect a toll.

The troll owned neither the body of water under the bridge, nor the bridge itself, nor the land on either side of the bridge and the troll certainly didn't build the bridge.

So when someone decides to patent something of which knowledge is already in the public domain - whether or not the USPTO is silly enough to grant said patent, they are a patent Troll!

To patent the process of "enter 2+2= into a calculator and read the display to see the result" is nothing less then being a patent Troll.

    The use of a calculator is public knowledge
    To apply math to a calculator is public knowledge
    Math is not patentable and is public knowledge
As a result:
    To apply for a patent on the public knowledge use of a device for the application of a publicly knowledgeable formula
is a Troll - planting your flag to collect a toll on something you don't have a claim over!

And to put bluntly:

    I see the application of software to a computer to be exactly the use of a math formula through a calculator!
Not analogous - exact. The only difference is the magnitude of resource in the hardware of a computer vs a calculator.

RAS

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