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'their bridge'
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 04 2013 @ 08:13 PM EDT
Patent Trolls are similar to gangsters operating a protection racket.
Pay the mob or be put out of business.
We now have lawyers behaving as gangsters for their Godfathers, with the mob being certain high tech companies.

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'their bridge'
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 04 2013 @ 10:58 PM EDT
Yeah, I read Newegg's bridge/troll description, and my brain is screaming,
"The troll didn't even build the bridge! The guy paying the toll built
it!"

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'their bridge'
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 05 2013 @ 07:13 AM EDT
In Hawaiian. Maori, Tahitian, Tongan, Samoan or any of the other Polynesian
languages, it would be an alienable relationship, expressed by 'a', as opposed
to inalienable relationships expressed by 'o'.

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A Bridge Too Far?!?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 06 2013 @ 03:57 PM EDT
A trivial question: The patent trolls aka the PAEs claim
they can't be sued -- they are just enforcing a patent.
Well here is a question for the legal beagles out there:
The Patent trolls got those patents from somewhere,
frequently at no cost. Why not sue the original owner of
the patent?!? Some should be able to be held
accountable. Most of these lawsuits are frivolous. PAE's
should be able to be sued just like any other entity. They
claim they had the money to "buy" these patents, well
they should have the money to PAY for DAMAGES. If
they don't have the money, I think it fitting that the
business they sued over patent X,Y,or Z have that patent
TRANSFERRED to them. Thus Patent Troll A sues
NewEgg for violating trivial patent X which was once
owned by M$, but which M$ transferred to the Patent
Troll without charge, in hopes of limiting competition.
NewEgg sues Patent Troll A over trivial Patent X, and
Wins. Patent Troll A says, "we don't have the money, as
all we do enforce patents we bought". "Very well", says
the court, "since you don't have the money, you will
hereby transfer Patent X you sued over , plus two other
patents of your choice to NewEgg since NewEgg is
entitled to treble damages". In short PAEs would be put
out of business -- FAST -- since M$s and who whoever's all holy
IP would be transferred to out of their hands to
business's they do not control. Only by removing these
patents from the ecosystem -- be it by invalidation, or by
transferring out of the hands of Mega corporations such
as M$, or those of Patent Trolls -- can businesses thrive.

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Of course it is something they bought.
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 06 2013 @ 04:52 PM EDT
They bought the patent. That's the deed that makes it their bridge!

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