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What does it matter whether the entities doing the suing have no other business? By analogy, what does it matter that mobsters are able to demand "protection"
by wes-exp 14y ago
What does it matter whether the entities doing the suing have no other business?
By analogy, what does it matter that mobsters are able to demand "protection" money from legitimate businesses? If it was their right to threaten and demand payment without doing anything useful?
I'll tell you why it matters: because demanding payment from society without contributing back in any way is deplorable, criminal behavior.
- rayiner 14y agoThat's not an apropos analogy at all. You're ignoring the crucial fact that the NPE paid the original inventor to take over the inventor's rights in the patent. Would the suit be illegitimate had the inventor sued himself, even if he didn't himself intend to use the patent? Then it's not illegitimate for the inventor to sell the patent to someone else who does the same thing. The value the NPE provides is allowing inventors to "cash out." It's more like if someone buy's out your landlords interest in the building your apartment is in and sues you on your lease. That's not a protection racket--that's enforcing your legitimate property rights.