Patents are meant to reward original innovator not the guys who buy them in bulk and profit out of it. I would disagree that non-practicing entities are fundam

Patents are meant to reward original innovator not the guys who buy them in bulk and profit out of it. I would disagree that non-practicing entities are fundamentally evil. If I have a legitimate patent on a useful and non-obvious invention that is unlikely to be independently created, I should be able to take my "reward" in a lump sum by selling the rights to it. Paul Allen isn't a patent troll because he owns an IP company; he's a troll because he's trying to enforce ridiculous patents that never should have been granted in the first place. Of course, if the USPTO were actually competent the "buy patents and sue" business model would be much less viable.