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You can't be a patent troll if you're actually making a product. The entire "business model" of a patent troll is to make money off of lawsuits, not from actua

• eru 15y ago
  Yes. Though of course, if a big company that was actually making things, bought a patent troll and just let the get on with their business, I'd still be inclined to call the new subsidiary a patent troll.
  • cube13 15y ago
    This is true. I probably should have said "companies that make products related to their patents cannot be patent trolls".
• stcredzero 15y ago
  A friend of mine was working in the Hustler store in Cincinnati in the late 90's/early 2000. You know how Larry Flynt opened a store in Cincinnati, despite the legislation passed specifically to exclude his businesses? They had boxes of butterfly, rainbow, and unicorn stickers in the basement. Every single sticker was inventoried separately, so legally, the Hustler store didn't have a majority inventory of adult items. There's nothing preventing a sufficiently large company from being some fraction X and another fraction Y. All systems have bugs, which is why simpler systems are easier to manage in the long run.